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From: Merlin <merlin__ AT geocities DOT com>
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Subject: Re: allegro == or != programming
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Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 02:52:45 GMT
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Nate Eldredge wrote:

> Gerhard Gruber wrote:
> >
> > Destination: "Jerome Atchison" <jeromeatchison AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
> > From: Gruber Gerhard
> > Group: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 14:39:16 -0500:
> >
> > >I suggest to Merlin to try writting his next program in assembler, because C
> >
> > But than he has to use an assembler. That's cheating. :) But there are a lot
> > of good books about 80x86 assembly programming so you can calculate the byte
> > values needed for a program. :)
>
> But think of all the microcode the Intel engineers wrote, and how much
> you're using that.  That's cheating.  Okay, so you have to design your
> own CPU, motherboard, hardware, etc.  But wait-- think of all the work
> that went into inventing the transistor.   You use it-- that's cheating,
> too...
>
> Face it-- you can't do anything all by yourself, so why even try?
> --

To learn..... because the person likes to. There are quite a few reasons to do
something yourself..or at least try to.

             Merlin.


>
>
> Nate Eldredge
> nate AT cartsys DOT com