2 Nov
2016
2 Nov
'16
8:29 p.m.
There are many kinds of developers. I am not a desktop developer, I am a
web developer. I was a professional web dev for many years, now I am a
hobbyist and code for my own needs.
So, while I know how to write for the web and how to write PHP, JavaScript,
work with MySQL and stuff, I know very little about doing anything on the
desktop (apart from coding some games, usually with the help of frameworks).
But you actually raised a very good point in that being a developer does
not mean you are a developer of everything.
Therefore, open source desktop DSP program written in C++ is only relevant
to a person who knows DSP coding on the desktop using C++. So, a given open
source program is potentially interested only to a segment of developer
community.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Hanspeter Portner <
dev(a)open-music-kontrollers.ch> wrote:
On 01.11.2016 14:07, Louigi Verona wrote:
--
Louigi Verona
http://www.louigiverona.com/
*Can you modify the proprietary software?* Nope.
However, neither can I
modify open source software. I am not a programmer, therefore theoretical
ability to modify, say, my favorite looper Kluppe is quite irrelevant to
me. I tried asking developers for help - nobody could do it. Period. For
me
virtually zero difference. Kluppe might as well
had been proprietary.
On 02.11.2016 17:19, Louigi Verona wrote:
I am a developer myself. If I need to solve
something, I might go read
the
documentation and, yes, examples, or watch a
tutorial, or ask a question
on a
forum or Stack Overflow. Very-very rarely would I
need to look at the
code of
someone's program. Very rarely. In fact, I
don't remember last time I
had to do it.
This two statements of yours seem slightly contradictory.
Are you a developer or not?
If you don't know for sure, one could argue that you most probably are not
and
thus may actually have disqualified yourself in the matter of comparing
learning
techniques in software development...
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