1. Re: More printf problems 2 - Reply
Michael Packard wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Wallace B. Riley wrote:
>> Oh, come on. Don't you ever do anything, like work crossword puzzles, read
>> murder mysteries, watch hammy drammies on TV, just because you enjoy doing
>> them? Does everything have to have a practical purpose? Bah, humbug!
>
>I don't waste days of my life doing something that in the final analysis
>are counterproductive. Why work on a problem you know you can't solve,
>and even if you got the solution you couldn't use it practically in your
>life?
Come on, Michael, you know you are talking rubbish! Why would you then
keep rehashing twenty year old games, you must know, would never sell?
Because it's fun! Nothing terribly original, but it is still a
challenge to do it just as well, or preferably better than lots of
people before us. And yes, we all, or almost all, keep re-inventing the
wheel, not because it is needed, but because it's fun. Because, I
suspect, it satisfies, in some perverse way, certain creative hunger
modern consumer society has badly suppressed in each of us. Jiri
