Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/01/06:45:29
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:09:48 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
>On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, aYk wrote:
>
>> The problem with the Allegro source is that it's cryptic as hell
>> because of the generic multi-purpose nature of the lib, so it's
>> extremely hard to learn anything from it and/or pinpoint the exact
>> piece of code which you're looking for.
>
>With all due respect, ability to read and understand code that others
>wrote is an important part of a programmer's curriculum. You might as
>well begin learning it, and today seems a good day to start.
>Especially since the author(s) of Allegro are available here, so you
>can always ask what's unclear. You won't always have this opportunity
>out there.
Yes I'm aware of that. I do know how to read other people's code and
I'm used to work in a team (I have been an archwizard in a MUD for a
while now, and I can say that keeping ~50 megs of source code by
dozens of various people up-to-date is not an easy task). I said the
Allegro source is extremely hard to follow, but by no means
impossible. It just takes a lot of work to figure it out, and if you
just wanna know something like deinitializing the linear framebuffer
for VBE modes, trying to figure it out from the Allegro source would
be like swatting a fly with an elephant gun.
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