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- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Phenomena egos??
- References: <1dg7r7INNjil@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov7.203516.9849@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1dhp99INNqn5@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov8.050234.20202@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1dj1sqINNetk@gap.caltech.edu>
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0i1k@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 18:55:36 PST
- Organization: TAP
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- Quoted from <1dj1sqINNetk@gap.caltech.edu> by keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider):
-
- > >The Amiga has probably the best downward-compatibility of any computer...
- >
- > That's because so little has changed... besides, somehow I doubt that
- > the demos (which emply many hardware tricks) will work so well on the
- > A4000. Many of them won't even run on my 3000...
-
- Er, you're talking about _upward_ compatibility.
-
- > No, I'm just saying that most people are not programming in machine
- > code any longer, due to the popularity and versatility of the Unix
- > machines.
-
- Most people around here who program in C aren't doing it because
- of the popularity and versatility of the Unix machines. In fact,
- I think Unix sucks (well, it doesn't suck, it's just creaky) for
- many kinds of program development, unless you also happen to have
- access to a lot of tools, and I'm a C programmer (Unix, MS-DOS,
- Amiga).
-
- > be made. OF course, if you write in a high level language, you can port
- > your program no matter what happens to the hardware (with a few
- > modifications).
-
- And your program is less amazing. In the case of demos, there is
- no need to care about portability, so why bother? As long as you
- accept that, the rest of this argument about high level language
- programming is just wasted air, because assembler will always be
- necessary on the target platform for quality results. If you're
- willing to give up quality because of the portability myth,
- well...
-
- > keith
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