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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Mike Farren Tutorial.
Message-ID: <23835@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 26 Mar 91 06:36:29 GMT
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I refuse to include 1400+ lines, each of which consists mostly of spaces.
Mr. Schraem, I hope that your programming skills exceed your posting skills.

I was not saying that "all game programmers are ignorant".  I AM saying that
most of them are lazy.  You make no points with me with your claims about
the disastrous effects of the multitasking, since all of your points are
rather easily rebutted.  You make negative points with me with your flaming
me for not having done enough game development.

I have been a game developer since 1978.  I have over thirty PUBLISHED 
products.  Can you say the same?  I have developed for everything from arcade
games to Apples, from Macs to HP laptops.  Can you say the same?  I believe
that my credibility is high.

A project with 15,000 hours?  If you are talking about your own personal
hours, a bit of math shows pretty clearly that your claim is, shall we say,
overblown.  That's 1,500 10-hour days.  That's five YEARS of full-time work,
and I say that any project that takes five years to complete is wrong.
If, on the other hand, you're talking about the number of hours I've spent
as a programmer, simply take the 22 years I've been doing it, multiply by
about 2 to 4 hours a day, on average, and you'll come up with a pretty 
impressive number yourself.

-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us