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- From: mlelstv@spckls.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: Going to the metal
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.191507.9754@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:15:07 GMT
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- In <TL6VwB2w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy) writes:
- >included a vital library? While it has been the case that some people
- >release program requiring libraries that did not include, such libraries
- >were commonly available, and could be easily acquired.
-
- Having a library per program defeats the concept of a library. Having
- different but slightly incompatible libraries with the same name defeats
- having an operating system.
-
- >> Look at the number of slightly incompatible MOD players out there to
- >> get an idea of the problem.
-
- >I don't see that as a problem. Do you play Dungeons and Dragons, Mr. Van
- >Elst? If so, take a look at the book tome of Magic, and look up the
- >magic item called the 'Mirror of Simple Order'. I believe you've been
- >playing around with it...
-
- I see that as a problem. Using a computer isn't metaphysics or philosophy.
- Finding out what program will work, will not work or even crash in what
- situation is not my first goal and I left that to the theoretic computer
- science people some years ago.
-
- >By the way, I _dare_ you to post that kind of thought in audio! It would
- >start a war that would run for weeks! Now, you want to see _real_
- >fanatics, step on someone's toes about his tracker.
-
- >That's why you have so many mod formats.
-
- That's simply because tracker programmers have little imagination.
- They can't look beyond their next idea.
-
- If you define a 'format' you make a specification and then write code
- that follows that specification. MOD programmers did go the opposite
- way by writing a new bit of code and seldomly write down what format
- is understood by the player.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
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