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Rex Couture wrote:
At 03:15 AM 5/25/2006, Robert Campbell wrote:
People like to write their own! That way it operates as they wish rather
than according to someone elses 'odd' ideas of a good design.
Or am I wrong? Would a 'good' ASCII module be a real asset to the
community.
I don't think people like to write their own, but they do like good design. I think they only write their own either if existing code is somehow unsatisfactory -- maybe too complicated, simplistic, or verbose. Rolling your own is a big waste of time, but so is using a Swiss Army module.*
* Those who might think I am offending the Swiss should just Google "Swiss Army knife" (WITHOUT the quotes), and they will immediately understand the reference. The first image shows a very unOMS-like implement.
Rex Couture
By saying a good ASCII module I hope you don't mean to duplicate stdio
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/stdio.h.html
-Doug
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