Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> Unfortunately many people read one book about C and
> think they are programmers.  They are as wrong as
> they can be, and the code they write usually
> demonstrates this very well :-(

You're missing the distinction between being a
programmer and being a programmer who writes
good code.  If someone writes a program, no matter
how useless, or how badly coded, even just one
that outputs "Hello world", they are by definition
a programmer (i.e. "one who makes programs").

If I had the need for a feature that POV didn't
have and the ability to throw together a patch
that allowed me to do what I desired, why would
I spend more effort than absolutely necessary
to achieve the effect I want (i.e. make it
usable by anybody other than myself, with clean
code, documentation, the works) if all I need
it for is one or two images?  If someone else
finds the patch useful, fine, but if it doesn't
work the way THEY want, who cares?
-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com

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