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From: jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Beginning Programmer Seeks Help
Message-ID: <18740@santra.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 89 16:38:49 GMT
References: <395@rondo.randvax.UUCP> <117@indri.primate.wisc.edu> <8055@claris.com>
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Reply-To: jmunkki@kampi.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
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In article <8055@claris.com> drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen) writes:
>In article <117@indri.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu writes:
>>...Unfortunately, everybody posts binaries on this net.  Hardly anyone
>>seems to know that source code exists, or else they're too stingy to
>>share it!
>>
>Right on.  I have a huge collection of source code, both self-written and
>downloaded.  Anything that is not a commercial product of mine has been
>posted to various services -- unfortunately, the times I have tried to post
>(read that mail it to the moderator) on this net, nothing seems to happen.

Same thing has happened to me. I wrote a desk accessory for viewing the
mandelbrot set and mailed the sources & binaries to the moderator. Nothing
happened. Is there a rule against sending binaries with sources? :-)

I haven't used other people's sources in my programs. I usually write
everything from bottom up and usually end up with binaries 1/2 the
size of comparable programs. I do look at the listings in MacTutor,
but I can't remember copying source code.

Since most people do not have the time write everything themselves,
I think we would see more new programmers, if beginners had more
source code available.

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