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Real C-- Coder's Guide
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release 2
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by Burnin' of UNKNOWN Prez
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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
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language called C-- or SPHINX C--. It was designed by Peter "SPHINX" Cellik
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and distributed as greenware. It supported COM and OBJ formats. Peter stopped
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the development in 1996 but as he released the source then there're two follow
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up distributions: The SPHiNX C-- Development Team's SPHiNX C-- (up to version
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1.06) and Mishel Sheker's SPHINX C-- (currently at 0.237 beta 5). Sheker's
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version is still in development and supports among other things
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EXE/LE/PE/SYS/DLL formats and FPU. But let's get to the point now, shall we?
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By most programming languages there are some coders who think that this
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language is the best there is. I don't know how many "followers" C-- has but
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I know one who considers C-- to be a religion. What you're going to read in
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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
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Real C-- coders worship Peter Cellik and Mishel Sheker
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Real C-- coders think that "The SPHiNX C-- Development Team" is a bunch
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of lamers and their distribution ain't worth downloading
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Real C-- coders know that C-- rocks!!!
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Real C-- coders know that C-- not only rocks but is also the coolest
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invention since assembly
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Real C-- coders know that the best programmer's editor ever built is
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Norton Commander Editor (which pops up by F4 in Norton Commander)
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Real C-- coders who's sources are bigger than 65000 bytes use QEdit or
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some other advanced editor where you can set the functions to keys exactly
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as they are by NCEdit
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Real C-- coders are DOS freaks, often even Real DOS Users
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Real C-- coders have always, ALWAYS, the latest version of C--
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Real C-- coders have contributed code to M. Sheker
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Real C-- coders have found some bug in C--
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Real C-- coders re-write many of the build-in procedures to optimize them
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by 1 or 2 bytes
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Real C-- coders often need procedures which are not present thus they have
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to write the code themselves
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Real C-- coders consider REG procedures to be the only procedures worth using
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Real C-- coders think that assembly is a possible alternative to C--
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Real C-- coders think that C can in some circumstances be a possible
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alternative to C--
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Real C-- coders think that C++ can in some never-happening cases be a
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possible alternative to C--
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Real C-- coders know that not Pascal, ADA, Fortran, BASIC nor any other
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language can in any circumstances be a possible alternative to C--
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Real C-- coders would write WinWord macros in C-- if they would know how
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Real C-- coders like all those TurboVision 'C-- Workbenches' but don't use
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any
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Real C-- coders like TINY model
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Real C-- coders are in love with COM format
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Real C-- coders have written a device driver
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Real C-- coders know how to write TSRs
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Real C-- coders know that TSRs are better that device drivers and thus they
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don't write device drivers anymore
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Real C-- coders have converted C--'s documentation into some hypertext format
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Real C-- coders have converted some assembly or C source to C--
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Real C-- coders like to optimize
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Real C-- coder know how how to use a dis-assembler
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Real C-- coders constantly check M. Sheker's homepage for updates
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Real C-- coders have a 'SPHINX C--' GIF in their homepages
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Real C-- coders never miss a chance to declare that they use SPHINX C--
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Real C-- coders find that greenware is the coolest distribution policy
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after greetware
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Real C-- coders have the line '?use80286' in all their sources
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Real C-- coders usually disable the 'resize' option
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Real C-- users have their C-- directory in the root of drive and not in some
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x stuff/blablabla/misc/languages directory
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Real C-- coders like to comment and at least 28,4% of their sources size is
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dedicated to comments
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Real C-- coders consider everything that's not possible to code in C-- not
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worth coding
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Real C-- coders like words that begin with 'cod' (like 'coders' and 'coding')
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Real C-- coders find it sad that the newest versions of the compiler need at
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least a 386
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Real C-- coders have thought about releasing their own distribution of C--
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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!!!"
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