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From: frenchc AT cadvision DOT com (Calvin French)
Subject: ESSAY: WHY I LOVE DJGPP (READ: YES I AM LAME)
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 09:58:51 GMT
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Okay, I'm feeling incredibly silly tonight. Anyways here is why I like to 
program with DJGPP, because I know it will warm your heart =)

For me, programming, nay computing nowadays for me is more about getting 
control over my system than anything. Nothing could be more aggrivating to me 
than when Win95 takes the screen away from whatever program I'm in to "inform 
me" that my dial-up networking has established a connection. If my secretary 
interrupted me like that I would fire her. Well okay I don't have a secretary 
of course (I'm only 19). This is really why I like DJGPP. I know what it does, 
it is reliable, I know that new versions aren't suddenly going to invalidate 
millions of lines of code, and introduce brand new concepts that I'm suddenly 
expected to conform to because, after all, other people can think for me. If 
that makes any sense. Gross, i actually used the word "nay" up there. Anyways. 
To get back to my point. When I program with RHIDE/DJGPP (and RHIDE is 
undoubtably a HUGE part of it, thanks Robert!!!), it is like being in an F-14 
cockpit. All of my favorite programs feel like this. Really I don't hate Win95 
for being unstable, because even for me it crashes maybe like on average only 
about 3 or 4 times a day (heheh this isn't bad, really, 2 mins a day is not a 
lot, I can sit and think then, unacceptable though) What I hate about Win95 is 
all the bs it gives me. Like I don't care half the time, you know, but it 
feels obligated to tell me, or make me do something I really don't have time 
for. Like to send this message I have to click the little post icony thing. 
Well that's ok I suppose, at least I'm not required to mouse-click every 
letter of this essay-slash-rant on an on-screen keyboard, and yes you /know/ 
that is where we're headed, hehe.

Well I feel just a little stupider for writing this, but hopefully it will 
inspire somebody. Granted it may be a bit hard to get the feel of at first, 
but once you get the hang of it, there is just zero friction with this system, 
baby. It's as simple as that.

I'm going to go try and regain some semblance of maturity now.

- Calvin -

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http://www.cadvision.com/frenchc/                  (Wig out, peeps.)
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