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Real C-- Coder's Guide
release 2
by Burnin' of UNKNOWN Prez
Oct 16th, 2001
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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 then there're 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 0.237 beta 5). Sheker's
version is still in development and supports among other things
EXE/LE/PE/SYS/DLL formats and FPU. But let's get to the point now, shall we?
By most programming languages there are some coders 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 and 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, often even Real DOS Users
Real C-- coders have always, ALWAYS, the latest version of C--
Real C-- coders have contributed code to M. Sheker
Real C-- coders have found some bug in C--
Real C-- coders re-write many of the build-in procedures to optimize them
by 1 or 2 bytes
Real C-- coders often need procedures which are not present thus they have
to write the code themselves
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 have written a device driver
Real C-- coders know how to write TSRs
Real C-- coders know that TSRs are better that device drivers and thus they
don't write device drivers anymore
Real C-- coders have converted C--'s documentation into some hypertext format
Real C-- coders have converted some assembly or C source to C--
Real C-- coders like to optimize
Real C-- coder know how how to use a dis-assembler
Real C-- coders constantly check M. Sheker's homepage for updates
Real C-- coders have a 'SPHINX C--' GIF in their homepages
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/blablabla/misc/languages directory
Real C-- coders like to comment and at least 28,4% 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 'cod' (like 'coders' and 'coding')
Real C-- coders find it sad that the newest versions of the compiler need at
least a 386
Real C-- coders have thought about releasing their own distribution of C--
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!!!"