From: Vic Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: allegro == or != programming Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 19:41:14 -0400 Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada Lines: 18 Message-ID: <35C64A9A.4BAD@cam.org> References: <016701bdbf05$33edb500$0a1f1bc4 AT enterprise-z> <35C63A4F DOT A83BEA4 AT geocities DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-845.hip.cam.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Merlin wrote: > True.. I don;'t mind people using allegro or whatever else.. i just don;t think > it's an excuse to stop learning how to do them... but you see, allegro as it is today took more than 2 years to develop. of course, since it's a general library, not optimised for a certain gme, you could make parts of it faster (like 3D poly drawers) but it's still a good lib and you would waste your time reinventing the wheel. About learning, I agree you should have SOME understanding of what is going on, but, you have to agree with me, you can NEVER learn *everything*, there's always going to be something that you don't know that someone else does. So at some point you have to stop learning (you're not a walking enciclopedia after all) and use the tools available to you. For example do you know how every part ogf your computer works? me, I know some of them, the others, I couldn't care less... even if I would spend my entire life just learning stuff, I don't think I would reach 5% of all the knoweldge in the world.