Message-ID: <35C80E5A.1E53A5F9@geocities.com> From: Merlin MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: allegro == or != programming References: <016701bdbf05$33edb500$0a1f1bc4 AT enterprise-z> <35C63A4F DOT A83BEA4 AT geocities DOT com> <35C64A9A DOT 4BAD AT cam DOT org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 39 Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 07:51:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 184-cy-wpg.ilos.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 02:51:06 CDT Organization: MBnet Networking Inc. To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Vic wrote: > Merlin wrote: > > True.. I don;'t mind people using allegro or whatever else.. i just don;t think > > it's an excuse to stop learning how to do them... > > but you see, allegro as it is today took more than 2 years to develop. > of course, since it's a general library, not optimised for a certain > gme, you could make parts of it faster (like 3D poly drawers) but it's > still a good lib and you would waste your time reinventing the wheel. > About learning, I agree you should have SOME understanding of what is > going on, but, you have to agree with me, you can NEVER learn > *everything*, there's always going to be something that you don't know > that someone else does. True.. "A man who claims he knows everything knows nothing" - Confucius (sp).You can not learn everthing..there is simply too much. > So at some point you have to stop learning (you're not a walking > enciclopedia after all) you don't have to stop learning... you just won't get to everthing... which is where _I_ thing allegro _should_ come in to play. > and use the tools available to you. > For example do you know how every part ogf your computer works? No.. But i haven't stopped learning. > me, I know some of them, the others, I couldn't care less... even if I would spend > my entire life just learning stuff, I don't think I would reach 5% of all the > knoweldge in the world. No...but IMO you don;t need to stop learning just because learning everthing is impossible..but this i just what i think... other's may think differently. Merlin.