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From: kawakami@cyclone.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami)
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Subject: Re: union demo 2
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Date: 7 Apr 91 09:59:42 GMT
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In article <1991Apr5.202600.7995@wam.umd.edu> dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett) writes:
>It's as though the authors only spend much time on the "nifty hack"
>parts of the demos -- the routine that puts 522 colors on the screen or
>whatever, and then just do a half-baked job on the rest.  It doesn't
>take much work to make a well-behaved program, but it requires a kind
>of discipline I guess.

>Dave Baggett
>dmb%wam.umd.edu@uunet.uu.net


Facts is facts, and the fact is, most of the fun in programming (at least
from what I've seen) is in getting the program/function to work right, and
squeezing in as many "features" as possible.  Careful design and a good
user interface take a back seat.


John Kawakami                  kawakami@ocf.berkeley.edu
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