Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!smosjc!brett
From: brett@smosjc.UUCP (Brett Coon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: MFM coding/protection.
Keywords: flames, flames, flames
Message-ID: <317@smosjc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 90 22:06:47 GMT
Organization: S-MOS Systems, San Jose, Ca., USA
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>Well, hoser, why did you bother buying a multitasking computer if you don't
>give a flip about multitasking? I know I do.

[Other similar flames deleted]

Geez, give this guy a break!

If the original post had requested programmers all over the world to unite
against the evils of multitasking, maybe these flames would have been 
deserved.  As is, the original post was merely demonstrating low-level disk
routines, written in an admittedly (by the author) not nice way.  It's
certainly true that software timing loops are bad ideas and that there's no
excuse to let code like that posted ever reach a marketed product, but these
flames are ignoring the useful information presented.  Now that the poster has
been thoroughly flamed, I think it's doubtful he'll contribute to further
discussions.

Besides, the only truly effective way to make programmers stop writing "dirty"
code is for us to stop buying it.  Flames get us nowhere.  Now if someone had
taken the time to generate a good version of the posted code, with the timing
loops replaced, a real purpose might have been served.
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|Brett Coon           |  uunet!smosjc!brett         |
|S-MOS Systems, Inc.  |  "You like 'em, anchovies?" |
|San Jose, CA         |            -Runaway Train   |