Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo
Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> writes:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 03:10:47AM -0800, Ben Johnson wrote:
>> Obviously, what still strikes me is that, as points out Justin
>> Pryzby, to prefer this coding style Mark Vojkovitch would have
>> had to program the registers and the functions "off the top of
>> his head", which if there are many does not exactly sound the
>> preferred means of writing source code. Correct me if I am
>> mistaken.
>
> I honestly don't believe anyone can possibly prefer to look them up
> that way. MarkV himself has made references to 'looking [the magic
> numbers] up in the book'.
If he looks them up in a book each time he needs them, then
that's just bad programming style, not a failure to make source
available.
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Ben Pfaff
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