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Real C-- Coder's Guide
ver. 1.0
by Burnin' of UNKNOWN Prez
December 3, 2000
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Introduction
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There's a small (well, the latest versions ain't so small any more) program
language called C-- or SPHINX C--. It was designed by Peter "SPHINX" Cellik
and distributed as greenware. It supported COM and OBJ formats. Peter stopped
the development in 1996 but as he released the source there are two follow
up distributions: The SPHiNX C-- Development Team's SPHiNX C-- (up to version
1.06) and Mishel Sheker's SPHINX C-- (currently at 0.235). Sheker's version
is still in development and supports among other things EXE/PE/SYS/DLL formats
and FPU. But let's get to the point now, shall we? By most programming
languages there are some who think that this language is the best there is.
I don't know how many 'followers' C-- has but I know one who considers C--
to be a religion. What you're going to read in this file is actually all
about him.
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Real C-- coders
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Real C-- coders know that 'C--' ain't a typing error
Real C-- coders worship Peter Cellik
Real C-- coders who are aware of the Sheker distribution also worship
Mishel Sheker
Real C-- coders think that "The SPHiNX C-- Development Team" is a bunch
of lamers and their distribution ain't worth downloading
Real C-- coders know that C-- rocks!!!
Real C-- coders know that C-- not only rocks but is also the coolest
invention since assembly
Real C-- coders know that the best programmer's editor ever built is
Norton Commander Editor (which pops up by F4 in Norton Commander)
Real C-- coders who's sources are bigger than 65000 bytes use QEdit or
some other advanced editor where you can set the functions to keys exactly
as they are by NCEdit
Real C-- coders are DOS freaks
Real C-- coders have always the latest version of C--
Real C-- coders have contributed code to M. Sheker
Real C-- coders re-write half of the build-in procedures to optimize them
by 2 bytes
Real C-- coders consider REG procedures to be the only procedures worth using
Real C-- coders think that assembly is a possible alternative to C--
Real C-- coders think that C can in some circumstances be a possible
alternative to C--
Real C-- coders think that C++ can in some never-happening cases be a
possible alternative to C--
Real C-- coders know that not Pascal, ADA, Fortran, BASIC nor any other
language can in any circumstances be a possible alternative to C--
Real C-- coders would write WinWord macros in C-- if they would know how
Real C-- coders like all those TurboVision 'C-- Workbenches' but don't use
any
Real C-- coders like TINY model
Real C-- coders are in love with COM format
Real C-- coders know how to write TSRs
Real C-- coders know that TSRs are better that device drivers and thus they
never write device writers
Real C-- coders have converted C--'s documentation into HelpPC format
Real C-- coders constantly check M. Sheker's home page for updates
Real C-- coders have a 'SPHINX C--' GIF in their home pages
Real C-- coders never miss a chance to declare that they use SPHINX C--
Real C-- coders find that greenware is the coolest distribution policy
after greetware
Real C-- coders have the line '?use80286' in all their sources
Real C-- coders usually disable the 'resize' option
Real C-- users have their C-- directory in the root of drive and not in some
x stuff directory
Real C-- coders like to comment and at least half of their sources size is
dedicated to comments
Real C-- coders consider everything that's not possible to code in C-- not
worth coding
Real C-- coders like words that begin with 'code' (like 'coders', 'coding',
etc.)
Real C-- coders find it sad that the newest versions need at least a 386
Real C-- coders have thought about releasing their own distribution
Real C-- coders would read alt.sex.c-- if there would be such a news group
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Conclusion
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As real C-- coders would say: "Real C-- coders rock!!!"