1. Re: Food For Thought
- Posted by euman at bellsouth.net
Jul 03, 2001
MAN NOW THATS FUNNY ;>)
But there is some truth to it >.>
I have a book called Borland C++ Builder Unleashed
by Charlie Calvert. a 1232 page book of mass confusion.
and several other C, C++ book that equal or exceed the
page count of Charlie's. - Smooth ride? NOT!
I think that you want someone to drive that car for you,
Fill the tank when its empty and change the oil every
3000 miles. Well, thats just not gonna happen.
Im not trying to convince you, just persuid you to learn
something that is kindof fun.
Living with a program that you produced useing Win32lib
and a customer just so happens to ask for a change that
win32lib doesnt support,
what are you to do, lie and say it cant be done
and have your customer go elsewhere or do it and have
a customer that will continue to ask for your service.
Me, I kindof like the idea of keeping a client and if this means
I might have to kiss some butt and it ends up feeding my family
then mmmmmuuuuuaaaaaaaaaa XOXOXO!
Euman
euman at bellsouth.net
----- Original Message -----
From: <irvm at ellijay.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 19:19
Subject: Re: Food For Thought
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> On Tuesday 03 July 2001 17:33, euman at bellsouth.net wrote:
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> > >I drive a car. It's nice to be able to do that without first taking
> > >courses in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and metallurgy.
> > >Maybe if I did know all those things, and invested a lot of time
> > >and money in it, my car would run faster - maybe not.
> > >Much easier to just go buy a faster car.
>
> > Your analogy of buying a car while obvious a good bit
> > of advice has not much to do with API coding.
>
> OK, change the word 'car' to Visual C++.
> As much as I dislike Microsoft, I have to admit that at least
> they provide a reasonably comfortable ride. Everywhere
> the Euphoria folks want to go, they first have to build a road.
>
> > Just last week someone asked how to make RichEdit
> > accept files larger than 65k and I replied with
> > EM_EXLIMITTEXT which can be found in the SDK.
> >
> > Sure the person that needed this info didnt look before
> > he/she asked the question. Am I to assume that to drive the
> > car you mentioned earlier doesnt require we take a road test
> > first or learn how to start the engine?
>
> Since I have already passed the driving test, and all engines
> start the same way, yes - I expect to be able to drive out of
> the dealership without any problem except making the payments.
>
> > True, knowing the engine and metalurgy isnt/shouldnt be
> > required to drive the car but isnt that the same as MS
> > doing the work and making the DLL's that we use to API program?
> >
> > After all, we have the keys to this car in their SDK all
> > we have to do now is turn the key to start the engine........
>
> Sure, right after we learn to drilli for oil, and figure out how to refine
> it, based on some instructions written in Swahili, we'll be ready to ride.
>
> > NEXT!
>
> Nope.
> You haven't convinced me.
>
> Regards,
> Irv
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