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- From: marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans)
- Subject: Re: Phenomena egos??
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:38:36 GMT
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- keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
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- >Once you realize that portability and not size and speed optimization
- >is the emphasis, you will see why no one really bothers to write
- >demos anymore. Again, what is the use writing such a thing (other
- >than to practice your machine code on a single machine) when it will
- >be useless in but a few years?
-
- That doesn't matter, as a demo is good only for a few months (well, up to
- a year sometimes), then there are newer and better demos. There are some
- exceptions, "Classic" demos which never goes out of style.
-
- >Basically, the reason that there aren't many demos being written (here
- >at least) is the same reason why fewer people are bothering to learn
- >machine code. I knew the machine language for my Commodore 64, but
- >I never bothered to learn it on my Amiga 3000. I just didn't see any
- >point. For most if not all of the things I am doing, C is quite
- >fast enough. I also realize, writing in C, that my program will be
- >useful for years to come, no matter what machine I happen to own at the
- >time.
-
- Just writing programs in C doesn't make them portable to newer
- machines. C programmers can do the very same mistakes as assembler
- programmers. The only difference in portability between C and assembler is
- that C programs sometimes can be ported to a machine with a different
- processor, but since we're talking Amiga, that's off subject.
-
- >I don't mean to sound harsh here, but I think demos are a thing of the
- >past. They are behind the times. It is great that you know everything
- >about the A500, but this machine is really becoming an antique. So,
- >while there may be better coders there in Europe, it is hard to tell,
- >because the clever people here in the US seem to be doing more
- >productive and useful programming.
-
- Yes, boring isn't it?
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