From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: Check out my demo game!
Date: 9 Aug 1997 07:44:11 GMT
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> Well, I love Allegro!
> And about the companies, well, you're thinking like this: "Using this
> lib shows I can't do things myself and nobody will hire me". But think
> about it this way: "Using this lib shows that I have no problem adapting
> to new environments and using other programmers' code". Considering you
> won't be the only programmer on that project, this is a *good* thing,
> since you will have to deal with code that's not yours (you write the 3D
> engine, someone else is with sound, another guy is with the network
> stuff, and you all have to work together).

Don't forget Murphy's Fifth Law of Cyberentomology, when you're up late at
night sweating over a tough bug in a big multi-person programming project.


Murphy's Fifth Law of Cyberentomology:

The bug you just spent thirty hours and fifteen bucks' worth of coffee
(substitute appropriate source of dietary caffeine) trying to find in the
G. Whiz Bang Superfromulgator software will turn out to be in somebody
else's code.

(Or in the compiler, or the linker, or the libraries, or the operating
system, or any random item of Microsoft software that happens to be
installed on the same machine used for development...)
--
    .*.  Where feelings are concerned, answers are rarely simple [GeneDeWeese]
 -()  <  When I go to the theater, I always go straight to the "bag and mix"
    `*'  bulk candy section...because variety is the spice of life... [me]
Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh