I Question Myself
Sometimes I wonder if I’m cut out to do any programming what so ever. This evening while playing with tying SDL, Agar, and OpenGL all together, I spent an hour and a half tracking down a single errant close bracket.
It was not helped by the fact that SDL helpfully, and silently, re#defines your normal ‘main’ entry point into SDL_main so it can supersede yours with its own. Had I known that simple fact I would not have had to spend the time trawling through SDL header files completely doubting my own sanity in how such a bug could be left in library code.
Not only this, but earlier in the afternoon I spent an equally rediculous amount of time wondering why I suddenly couldn’t declare a bool any more. In my foolish haste to copy & paste example code to begin hacking away at it I failed to notice the source file had a .c extension rather than .cpp. Good old MIME getting in the way once again.
Yes, I will be handing back my membership card in at the door on my way out, but by root I’ll earn that damn thing back again!!
It’s good to know even the experts miss the obvious sometimes!
You’re too kind, I think I have shown that I am certinaly no expert.