Strange, I read every line of every piece of code I add to my mud..... When I first started programming my mud, I was a nieve little bastard who would just add something, assuming it would work...... I deleted that mud 6 months later, and started over, this time starting by printing every darn line of ROM out onto paper..... You should see my notes as I read every page of that code.... "fix this, change that to this, optimize this, translate this"...........
I do the same thing with every snippet I've ever looked at, sure, I may not use it in it's full glory, but I'll take the ideas I like, and leave the fluff I dont need..... That's what snippets are for yes/no? They are to promote ideas inside of a coders head..... They are someone else saying "YES! Look! I have done this!, you wanna do the same? Here are my steps!" Any real coder will understand this, and sure, they might like how you did it, and just use your code, or they might think of some inventive way of working it into their own code..... I hardly find either way lazy...... I've released 4 snippets in my time, and sure, people may not use them, but hey, if they do, so much the better for them, if it in anyway helps them to better understand what is needed for a mud to run, I'm there to help.......... And honestly, have you ever been on a mud that was active, and didn't have a knowledgeable coder? if so, how long was this mud around? Let their own ignorance get the better of them, but it's not really our place to judge how they do what they do............ We're all human in some form or another, unless we're running the service, it's not our place to judge how the rest of us act.... I sit back here, and watch ideas and questions come in day after day, and some indeed inspire me to do work on my mud, others, they just inspire me to unsubscribe, but I'm here to help, and if people hadn't already answered all of the e-mails before I get a chance to answer them, you might have seen more of me :) (I check my e-mail rather irregularly.... pity too....) Anyway, I've rambled enough, but please Tom, dont generalize, there are other people out there who are intelligent, you just need to give them a chance, not all have the voice you do........... Icechild Coder of Arthanox *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 12/21/2001 at 2:48 PM Tom Whiting wrote: >> >All this work to promote someone else's laziness?? >> >> I don't think it's laziness. It's called sharing code. >> There are several really good operating systems based on this thoery. >> >> >Sharing code is good, and I'll continue to do it, honestly. However, it >DOES >promote laziness.. Rather than write the function themselves, or modify the >function to do what they want it to do. Granted, I use snippets, however >when I use a snippet, I at least TRY to understand what it's doing and >modify it for DR so that it doesn't even look like the same snippet. Hell, >9/10 times, I look at the snippet, see how x does things, see how I want it >done, don't even use the snippet, but write my own code, based on the idea >of that snippet. Again, how many do that? Probably not many at all. > > >-- > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >------ > Common sense is great, but only to those who use it. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >------- > > TJW, head tech, Dreamless Realms mud. > mud: telnet://drealms.kyndig.com:9275 > web: http://drealms.kyndig.com > code snippets: http://drealms.kyndig.com/snippets > > > > >-- >ROM mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
