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tcaudilllg · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 2:25 pm Post subject:

You're missing the point. His mind is -NOT CONDUCTIVE- to the use of those products. His mind, unlike yours, is extremely organized, not lazy at all. Like me, he never stops drawing new conclusions from what her learns. Every moment is something new, every moment has an element of purpose.

He's making something new, something wholly without precedent. For his purposes, the parser generators are old news, just not up to the task.

Besides, they aren't as advanced as you might think. Compiler theory is well known to every Comp-Sci major. (and abstract as all hell :P

tcaudilllg · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 2:44 pm Post subject:

Let me put it this way. He doesn't care to "interact" with the system. When you don't care about "interaction" you care instead about "knowledge". He wants to build a vehicle for better knowledge transmission. To build something better than before, one must understand the trends that make something what it is. Only by starting at the bottom and working one's way up is it possible to determine the course of a system's evolution and to see the next step in the never-ending series of its developments. Traversing a system from its virgin thoughts may seem like a very cumbersome activity, but knowledge-based personalities have a gift for doing it. They are compelled to do it.

It's like the Windows way versus the Unix way, centralization versus comparmentalization, paradigm versus achitecture. The ancient psyche war between the precision-oriented logician and the vauge certitude of the experimentalist, that has always been and always will be. Am I becoming clear yet...?

It's his way and his way is just as good as yours. You can't change his mind. Just... leave it be?

LeoDraco · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject:

tcaudilllg · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 6:34 pm Post subject:

...Whatever.

LeoDraco · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject:

Also, in looking over his code, conclusions can be made: beyond being horribly unmaintainable and unextendible from an idiomatic viewpoint, and lacking the finesse of an OO design, the non-recursiveness of the design is probably where many problems are/were creeping in.
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Ninkazu · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 8:32 pm Post subject:

Maybe the .cpp extensions were confusing you. I wrote this in C.

Also, I've taken two years of AP (college level) CS, and got a 5 of 5 on the AP test. I've been programming for 5 years, and yes, this is my first compiler. In fact, it's my first advanced parsing software I've ever written.

We all learn, man. Don't rip on me for not being in college yet. That time is fast approaching, and I plan on double majoring in CS and Japanese with a minor in Mandarin. If you really think that living with your parents when you're a minor with no job is so bad, then I don't want to know where you live.

My experiences:
Gaming-
1) Three or four incomplete RPG engines in QBasic
2) Six map editors (5 in QB, 2 that are mouse-controlled)
3) A fly-around vector game in Java (final CS project)

Web-
1) Three websites for professional organizations.
2) Many websites for my own company - Venosoft (4 styles I can think of right now. The latest database driven with PHP and MySQL)

I'm still in the position of Fling-master. I haven't finished a game yet, but with this scripting language, I intend on creating a very powerful 2D RPG engine. Unlike many years ago (and I think DarkDread can confirm this) I am no longer a "n00b" who proclaims his unfinished - unstarted - game will be the best ever. I made this thread seeking help, and fixed the problem on my own. No one helped me, you just said, "What? You're writing your own code? That's a thing of the past, brother."

So if you don't like that, you have much to learn about passion for something you love to do.

LeoDraco · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

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tcaudilllg · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 5:11 pm Post subject:

I know that he had heard of it because Lex/Yacc is impossible to miss. Do a search for "compiler tools" on the 'Net and there it is. But eh this is a pointless arguement....

omega_alpha · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:40 am Post subject:

I'd have to second the position on the code being unmaintainable. But as for the "do it yourself" mentality, let him do what he wants. Honestly many programmers do this when they're beginning and moving beyond simple programs. There's nothing wrong with it and let him do what he wants.

BigManJones · Scholar Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 196

I agree. It was while writing/attempting to write a software renderer I discovered, 'Oh, thats why opengl is like that!'.