Author: walter irvin
Date: 21:03:56 11/08/99
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On November 08, 1999 at 20:47:43, James Swafford wrote: >On November 08, 1999 at 17:01:22, walter irvin wrote: > >>On November 08, 1999 at 16:19:03, James Swafford wrote: >> >>>On November 08, 1999 at 15:37:31, walter irvin wrote: >>> >>>[snip] >>> >>>>plus programmers are not prone to original ideas , >>>>lack imagination and creativeness . >>> >>>You have got to be kidding me. I take issue with that >>>statement. And the correct term is "creativity." >>> >>>Uggh. >>> >>>-- >>>James >>O K Y O U L A C K C R E A T I V I T Y >>make you fill any better is the result any different??????? it must have struck >>a nerve with you ?? is it because you copied most of your program from some one >>else??? i hope not !! tell me there are people who can create on there own . > > >Talk about 'struck a nerve'. :-) Really, you shouldn't feel >*that* bad about your grammar. > >I take issue because I fancy myself a creative person. And >I'm a programmer. I'll bet you haven't a clue about my >program, or what I'm trying to accomplish with it. It's >definitely not conventional, nor is it the easiest way to get >rating points. I stick around to learn, and to create. >That's what creative people do. > >My cousin and I published an adventure game called 'Arthur's Quests' >when I was 16 or 17, and he was ~15. It didn't go far, just >around our high school and other friends, but we were extremely >proud of it. I still am. Why? Because it told a story that >*we* had made up, and we saw it through to implementation. >We didn't know how to load PCX files, so I created a paint program >to use our own proprietary picture format. We both decided >that we could get used to that... creating stories and writing >them into adventure games. That's *still* what I want to >do. But I'm not creative. :-) > >I don't want to start a war here. I understand your point. >It's just that I strongly disagree. We can live with that, >right? > >-- >James your right i dont know much about your program , i am very glad to here that it is not conventional . im glad to here of people who are willing to experiment and try new ways . i would like to here more about your program , tell you about what i am (trying ) to do .
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