Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/08/05/04:30:31
poletti AT my-dejanews DOT com wrote:
> In article <35C42D12 DOT C9D01BA1 AT geocities DOT com>,
> Merlin <merlin__ AT geocities DOT com> wrote:
> > I am just curious on what most people think about allegro....
> I think it's great stuff.
cool.
>
>
> > Not to put down allegro or anything (it does have it's uses) but isn't
> > it sort-of like cheating in a way? I mean, it's like having all the
> > important stuff done for you... the only thing required is an idea
> > (although this is sometimes the hardest part)...
> > I guess allegro is ok for a hobbist programmer and for learning, but for
> > people who want to program for a living... It seems as if they are
> > trying to take a shortcut. Like they are not interested in learning
> > anything but the syntax of a programming language or just plain too lazy
> > to actually do it themselves... In my opinion if you are going to take
> > these kinds of shortcuts it you may as well just ask another programmer
> > to make your program for you... That may seem as though i am calling
> > people who use allegro lazy or stupid but this is not true, most are
> > probably perfectly capable programmers (i have even used allegro a few
> > times, even though i feel like i'm not actually making the program
> > myself)... Anyway, I just thought i'd get everyone's opinion on this (at
> > least everone who answers)...
> >
> > L8r.
> > Merlin.
> >
> Let me guess... Are you an assembler programmer?
actually yes a little bit :)
> Or do you code your programs
> directly as a sequence of '0' and '1'? ;) Maybe you have asked DJ Delorie to
> program your compiler for you!
hahaha... :)
>
>
> I think that every programming language has its benefits and its lacks. And I
> think that Allegro library is a good extension to reach a goal in a shorter
> time.
true...
> This is not only a company point of view (I like programming, I did it
> for my work, but I'm not a professional programmer and I never had problems
> with my coding times!), it is only to reach a goal and make your idea work.
true... other people do use libs because of their advatages.
> Beyond the lesson one could learn in re-implementig stuff, I think that one
> should use something useful. Or have you re-implemented your personal
> getch(), cprintf() and calloc() ?
no... i'm not silly... :-) i don't go around reprogramming every little tiny
thing..just some things and the rest i learn how they work...well the ones that
aren't obvious anyway..
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