Originally posted by bye bye apple :-D:
[b] Idiot, only a mac-using moron like you would be stupid enough to think of OpenGL as “not for the weak hearted”. OpenGL’s whole purpose is to make graphics programming easier.
Programming on a mac is POINTLESS. They are slow, awkward and unstable (contrary to apple’s fraudulent BEEP BEEP BEEP false advertisements). Even if, by some miracle, you did manage to come up with something useful on your mac, nobody would use it because there aren’t enough people out there who use macs.
Why don’t you shut your trap and stop spewing nonsense.
(PS: What did you plan to do for this guy? Download a sample program off the web and sell it to him for $200?)[/b]
Just out of curiosity, which part of a Mac is slow? You’re not really satisfied with the G5 or G4 benchmarks? Hell, even the G3s can run at 1 Ghz… which part of that is slow?
To that same point, which part of programming on a Mac is awkward? I’m of course taking for granted that you understand that Mac OSX is BSD (thats UNIX, its an operating system that you might want to look in to if you plan on doing any real programming) and happens to ship with GCC(a compiler… thats what programmers use to help them write programs, am I going too fast for you?), et al. If programming in UNIX is wrong, then I (and hundreds of thousands of other people around the world) don’t want to be right.
And, as for the unstable comment, I say again… UNIX. We’ll leave your Windows machine up along side my Panther machine and see who has to reboot first.
Lastly, to the point that no one uses Macs… ever watch The Screen Savers? Its a show on TV that technical people watch, you’ve probably never seen it. Anyway, guess what Leo’s default machine is? You get one guess, but to make it easy, you can’t guess Windows or Linux (props to Linux though).
cheers!