From: paxton AT accrington-web DOT co DOT uk Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: allegro == or != programming Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 10:10:40 GMT Organization: PAXTON Web Lines: 45 Message-ID: <35cf8b8e.6038761@news.zetnet.co.uk> References: <000e01bdbe22$b64ff1e0$914e08c3 AT arthur> <35C54165 DOT 6EAA2CAB AT geocities DOT com> Reply-To: paxton AT accrington-web DOT co DOT uk NNTP-Posting-Host: man-043.dialup.zetnet.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Aug 1998 10:14:07 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Hey! Merlin wasn't it Mon, 03 Aug 1998 04:51:54 GMT that you wrote: >This exactly what i think... That people should still know what is really going on >whether or not they used allegro. Why ? >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.. >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, >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 ?, 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 :) -------------------------------------------- Tony Greenwood - paxton AT accrington-web DOT co DOT uk --------- Computer Games Programmer -------- Web Pages at http://www.accrington-web.co.uk