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Subject: Re: Reading the keyboard without a window.
Keywords: keyboard,read,easy?
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Date: 12 Feb 90 20:24:09 GMT
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In article <131583@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>
>Which I understand to mean "don't peek until you get an interrupt." Which is
>still wrong, the correct answer is *DON'T PEEK EVER*. I hate to generalize
>to "europeans" but this kind of answer seems to constantly originate on your
>side of the Atlantic, Why? 

To be more specific, most such programmers seem to be located in
Germany. ((One example: a disk optimizer on a relatively recent Fish
disk was 'improved' by some German programmer. He removed all symbolic
names of offsets in disk blocks, recursively called the main loop
in case of errors, and somehow the original version worked while the
'improved' one didn't.))

If you insist on generalizing, just generalize to "Germans", but
leave the rest of Europe out of it. There are people here who *do*
read all the manuals. Really. And there are even programmers who
can write readable programs.

>--Chuck McManis
>uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis   BIX: cmcmanis  ARPAnet: cmcmanis@Eng.Sun.COM
>These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
>"If it didn't have bones in it, it wouldn't be crunchy now would it?!"

-Olaf Seibert.