From: "A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:18:19 -0600
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yorka AT dlc DOT fi wrote:

>    Yeah right, that's all most DJGPP "game programmers" seem to do
> nowadays. Looks like nobody can even find their socks without Allegro.
> I suggest learning everything "the hard way" (a lot of
> experimenting/practicing) and using fancy-pants libs ONLY AFTER you
> would be quite capable of writing similar libs by yourself. 

i would appreciate it if this macho man stuff about how you should
actually build each of the transistors on the video card by hand etc to
be a real game programmer could be taken to private e-mail.

last i heard, nobody had to use allegro. people use it, because it is
good. 

the sole reason the notion of libraries exists is so people can avoid
re-inventing the wheel. are you going to claim that you do not use
printf? in fact, why use C at all? you might want to hand-convert from
assembly language to machine code, and enter your program using debug.

  -- Sinan