Re: Merits
  By: Bill Birrell to Bo Simonsen on Sun May 09 2004 12:00 pm

 >     The sentiment I was agreeing with was that "you pays your
penny and you
 > takes your choice." I.e. if there are many ways to do something
it is a litt
 > hidebound to restrict yourself to one of them. However that goes with the
 > caveat that I do not EVER have pages and pages of code inside a function in 
 > It is so easy to define new functions that it is silly to complicate your li
 > by failing to do so.
   Now that, I can appreciate for another reason.... ;-)  I'm always hearing
new C programmers who only want to learn STD C programming, because they want
their code to be PORTABLE, yet they also want their program to have fancy
GRAPHICS, MOUSE support, etc.... Fine... Which do you want?  True, they can
somewhat write 100% STANDARD C code for Windows, and they can always write
libraries in Assembler to handle the graphics, and link them into the C, but
really and truely, that wouldn't be 100% STANDARD C, that'd be 100% STANDARD
C and ASSEMBLER.... Personally, its the reason I stuck with BORLAND for so
long (besides the cost)... Its version of OWL was so much EASIER for me to
understand.... 

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