CaptFalcon33035 wrote:

You are terribly wrong. Libraries are there for you to use. As it is said, don't reinvent the wheel. Rather, you find another way to apply it to what you've got.

Indeed. Libraries can save a ton of time in doing a lot of dirty work. For instance, in C++ (I tried to think of a good DM example, honest), you wouldn't try to right your own version of the Windows API. It handles a lot of work on your behalf, not to mention that the Windows OS would expect its programs to work in the way that programs using the API do; if you tried to write your own version, it may not be compatible with the OS at all (silly DLLs handling more invisible dirty work!)! And that's not to mention the amount of time it would take to study the workings of everything in the API to translate it and ultimately create basically the same thing.

In any case, libraries can be very helpful sometimes. However, it could never hurt (more than a strain on the brain) to understand the concepts behind the library and how they go together. That way, in the event that you should need to do something similar later on, you would be well-equipped.

Hiead

It was me and my access to about 5 blogs =). Not even joking, well I'm sure there were other people doing it too, but after I added it to a bunch of favorites it went down.

Worldweaver wrote:

If "programmer" does more for your ego than "coder" does (hell, it does to mine. I much prefer programmer over the alternative!)

Yeah, man when I go out and talk to all the ladies, what gets me laid is telling them I'm a "programmer" not a silly "coder".

=D

Ahahaha. I bet you're a peach with all the ladies. ;)

Dazz513 wrote:

Come play this awesome game!

I did, for five minutes. It sucked <font color = blue>[Monkeys]</font>. I find playing Antlion Troopers by myself more entertaining.

Anyway, What's wrong with half (or maybe less than half) of the friggin' community? Backstabbing and thievery, just to get something as meaningless and trivial as a good ranking on a flawed ranking system?

RedlineM203 wrote:

I guess everyone answered to my call, LRS is back on the top spot.

and according to your theory that games made with libraries suck, then LRS shouldn't be up there too, since it uses libraries for various game functionality.

oh the irony!