On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:05:51 -0400 waldo kitty <[email protected]> wrote:
> yes, i understand what you are saying however, remember that the point i'm > coming from is from that of the "average joe coder" who has no need of > understanding all the deep intricacies of everything... Now seriously. There are many much smarter people on this list than me. I am doing pascal coding only as a hobby. I don't have any programming/computer related degree. I don't understand all and everything of building a cross-compiler, but it only took me about 2 hours from not knowing where to start to a working cross-compiler. If that is to much for "average joe coder" then perhaps "average joe coder" should really switch to something like Java. Building a cross-compiler is not that hard. It takes some dedication and time. But it looks likes people are just lazy. Don't want to know, don't want to learn, always crying: "Give me the ready made stuff!" To me this sounds like the attitude of an end user and not that of a coder. No offence ment, but I really don't get it. We are coders after all. Learning and understanding makes a great part of this. Even learning stuff that you maybe don't need that often or ever again. Anyone interested in my CP/M knowledge? No? Thought so. Again, I don't believe that I am much smarter than "joe". So if I can do it, he can do it, too. I really don't want to offend anyone, I just don't understand this attitude. If you call yourself a coder, regardless of skill, setting up your environment is your task. And you have documentation and a great community that helps. What do you need more? Yes, sometimes it sucks, that things are a little complicated but such is life. R. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
