Re: >reinventing wheel

[wsquires@lonestar.utsa.edu (William H. Squires)]

In article <jmk3.722591802@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> jmk3@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell) writes:
>>Dave Lyons
>
>>Specifically, I do *not* agree with the FTA philosophy of re-inventing
>>the wheel as a matter of principle.  Life is too short not to leverage
>>off other people's work, or to do work which other people can build on.
>
>>I would prefer to see people build *better* tools for their own use
>>and to give or sell to others, rather than avoiding tools.
>
>Well stated, IMHO.
>
>  --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu
>

Yep, the logic is sound, but sometimes you just have to write custom code
to squeeze every cycle out of the poor ol' 65816 (a 40MHz 68040 it ain't!).
This is (I think) the reason the FTA games are so smooth and way cool!
Although I think that anyone who writes their own Std. File Routines instead
of using the SFI toolset has been spending too much time reading the MSDOS
manual! :)
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