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From: rouaix@fitou.uucp (Francois Rouaix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: European programmers (was New videogame offering 'Beast')
Message-ID: <276@seti.inria.fr>
Date: 5 Oct 89 13:42:16 GMT
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Reply-To: rouaix@inria.inria.fr (Francois Rouaix)
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In article <1989Oct4.212248.10564@i-core.UUCP> pete@i-core.UUCP (Pete Ashdown) writes:
>
>Are you kidding?  A Euro game hacker look at an exec list?  The game
>programmers in Europe wouldn't look at a Commodore guidelines manual, let
>alone follow one.
>
C'mon. Either put a ;-) or replace "the prgrammers" by "some programmers".
I can't stand those statements (can you <CB> ? ;-)) !
This is simply not true. There are many well-written games by European
programmers (why call them hackers ?)) . There are also bad games, I agree.
So let's stop this abusive generalization, you're hurting sensibilities
around here.

Flames go to alt.flames (I don't get this newsgroup here ;-)).



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