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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker = 1970's 8-Track Player
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 21:40:31 GMT
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- >larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana) writes:
- >> First off, not all demo and game coders go aR0und ANd Rite likE TH1S, ok?
- >They do, if not in typing then in attitude.
- Oh yeah, and the custom chip programmers are the devil's spawn and must be
- burned at the stake, and then drowned, and then pulled on the rack and then
- killed once or twice more is such a wonderful attitude. Even in the 7Mhz, OCS
- A1000 days a great deal of the OS zealots were like this. They didn't care
- what the program was, be it a flashy game, in house custom realtime program
- that would never even get an outside release, word- processor, telecom
- program, demo, video toaster, shell, everything must be programmed the same
- way, everything must use C or higher with no exception, everything must use
- the OS only - no exceptions, and even in quite some cases: everything must be
- done in a rigorous block structed programming setup with repeated procedure
- calls for evey little function even in the inner loop, everything must never
- use any global variables ever, everything must be readable and no alogrithm no
- matter its speed must ever be used if it isn't easy to follow.
-
- >>Second, stop grouping direct hardware programmers with rule-breakers.
- >With a >90% correlation we can safely see them as the same group.
- So, how does that make it the same? Maybe many do break rules, but that has
- nothing to do with whether direct programming is abd or good, safe or
- dangerous. Also try looking at a circa 1986 disk of PD OS-only stuff. Crash
- and problem city as well. Gee, I guess those OS-only coders are just a bunch
- of rule-breakers.
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