Message-Id:	<199808031649.MAA02855@delorie.com>
From:	"Guan Foo Wah" <jgfw AT usa DOT net>
To:	<paxton AT accrington-web DOT co DOT uk>
Cc:	<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: allegro == or != programming
Date:	Tue, 4 Aug 1998 00:47:53 +0800
MIME-Version:	1.0

> >Yes...I agree that if someone can't do something then it is ok to use
allegro's...but
> >this doesn't give them an excuse to stop learning....I think that they
should still try
> 
> An excuse you say ?... It is a reason I would need.. I use allegro and
> see absoloutly no reason to find out how something works when allegro
> does it for me..

You are wrong. It is good to find out how things work. If something goes
wrong, you might know to repair it. Or even better, improve it.  



> >to figure out how to use it and not just stop learning because it's
allready been done
> >for them...
> 
> If you use fprint...do you then go and learn how the computer works
> that out to putting text on the screen... surely everyone is using
> shortcuts but to varying degrees.. just because you know a little more
> than the bloke next door doesnt mean you have to instantly become a
> smart-arse telling everyone else to learn, 

Learn or don't learn is up to you. No one is forcing you to learn. But it
has a great advantage in learning. It increases your knowledge. See how
things are done. Then you will get more trickes. Makes you a better
programmer.



> >If they can better them then i think they should try... If not i think
they should try to
> >learn how to better it.. What bugs me is that some people stop trying to
figure it out
> >themselves once they have a library because it's been handed to them on
a silver
> >platter..
> 
>  Why do you think everyone in the world should think like you ?, 
> 

Man, you sound pissed. 




> How about the fact that I am not very well educated through no fault
> of my own, i am not even very litterrate, have you ANY idea how hard
> it was for me to learn allegro? Yet I get praised for the games i
> make, 
> 
> Ho and believe me, the people playing my games dont give a flying
> monkeys what language i use or how much i know :)

No one is perfect. It took me quite hard to learn game programming to. But
I am not going to stop here. I will learn more as time goes on. 

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