Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!killer!woodsb
From: woodsb@killer.UUCP (Brent L. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Picture swap (was Re: clite demo)
Summary: What if you ain't a programmer, eh?
Keywords: bozo ideas.
Message-ID: <4456@killer.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 88 10:16:07 GMT
References: <4398@gryphon.CTS.COM> <5560@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <2121@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: woodsb@killer.UUCP (Brent L. Woods)
Organization: Artificial Realities, Inc.
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In article <2121@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
 >I'm going to get flamed. Neat.

     Can't dispute that.

 >I'll go further. I'd be willing to say "shut down comp.binaries.amiga".

     I wouldn't.  No way.  Though, I might be considered prejudiced...
:-)

 >Am I being a hypocrite? After all, I posted Gauge and Browser in binary
 >format. Well, yes... but. I have since sent out the source of gauge, and
 >I've been posting binaries since Browser on Compuserve instead of here.
 >
 >No saint like a reformed sinner, perhaps.
 >
 >But go have a look at news.admin. Shutting down the binaries group
 >voluntarily might help us keep the sources group alive. I don't want to
 >have to fall back on alt.sources.amiga.

     Tell me, what are the people who don't have compilers or programming
expertise supposed to do?  Download all that fun source and just look at it
like it was high art?  Contrary to what I've seen implied elsewhere, most
of the Amiga owners in the universe *aren't* programmers or developers.
They're people who use the machine for some specific purpose (usually
graphics or sound applications) and barely trust themselves to point and
click with the mouse.  I have one friend who uses my Amiga from time to
time for word processing and he has a distinct *aversion* to the idea of
programming it himself.  Even so, I've just about sold him an Amiga of
his own because of all the *great* software I've shown him (if only I
could get paid for this...).  This is in spite of the fact that the verb
"to compile" gives him the twitches.

     Heck, it's hard enough for *me* to manage to compile the source sent
out by Matt Dillon (sorry Matt, but you *do* use a somewhat unique
environment), and *I* have lots of experience of that kind.  C'mon, give
the neophytes a break, eh?


--
     Brent Woods, Co-Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.amiga, mouthing
                  off yet again.

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