-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Real C-- Coder's Guide release 2 by Burnin' of UNKNOWN Prez Oct 16th, 2001 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Introduction -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Real C-- coders -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=- Conclusion -=-=-=-=-=-=- As real C-- coders would say: "Real C-- coders rock!!!"