On 11/02/2016 10:29 PM, Louigi Verona wrote: > > I agree that you have to look at someone's code. But, using your > language analogy, I don't think that I can learn Spanish by opening > someone's book and trying to read through it. I would actually start > with a textbook and simplistic texts. > whether it's a textbook or a simplistic text, it's "source-code" in that very sense. it is someone's else code that you're looking into anyway, duh? you DO learn on it and it IS the most effective way to do-it-fast-and-right(tm). compare that to trial-and-error... some may call it clean-room reverse-engineering, whatever, but let's face it: it's the worst way of learning about anything, believe me. enough evidence for me. whether it's better to learn from public, free/open-source code or from private/closed-source, which isn't available to start with, it's just pure nonsense. cheers -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
