"Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote in message
news:3c018f03$2@news.povray.org...
> > > "We know what is good for you".
> >
> > That should read -
> >
> > "Based on 10 years of experience we know what is good for the majority
of
> > you".
>
> but with the CG industry moving so quickly, 10 years of experience might
> just as well make you irrelevant

Heh - like the "EBusiness" model, making old business practices obselete?
Investors saying they don't need Warren Buffet, they've got Tech stocks?

I'd say listen to the pros.  You don't have to do what they say, but at
least -listen- to them!

...Chambers

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Sure write your patches although keep it separate from the povray source unless your
willing to continue working on your patch, cause that's half of what programming is.
If a patch is added to povray it has to be thoroughly tested before it is officially
added.

/Jens

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 07:21:12 -0500
"Timothy R. Cook" <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote:

> 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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