Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.

Colin Douthwaite (cfb...@southern.co.nz) writes:
> Ronnie Deschenes (dm8...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) wrote:
>>
>>I'm a bit of a lurker here, and I don't get what you guys keep flaming
>>this guy for!
>>
>>This guy makes a program to generate ASCII Art, and just HAPPENS to
>>include the extended character set in it, that does NOT have to be used,
>>and you go off the wall on him.
>>
>>When I first saw this group, I was impressed at how helpful and receptive
>>you were, but after seeing this, well, I'm not so sure.
> 
>>One point you all have to realize here, and I speak as a programmer and
>>someone who has had his programs downloaded, people are not going to
>>download his program EXCLUSIVELY for making pictures to post here. They
>>will make them to put on BBSes, FTP sites, Web pages, etc. where extended
>>Ascii is acceptable.
> 
>>I didn't want to get involved, but you guys are acting very petty here...
> 
> 
> Oh come on now...what do you reckon it is going to be like in this 
> newsgroup when people DO make what they think are Ascii Art pictures 
> and DO post stuff like the example below provided by the program's author ?  
> 

Look, you guys that are against this program just refuse to admit that you
are NOT the only customers this guy is looking for. You don't see guys
strictly into writing poetry throw a hissy fit when MS Word adds DTP
functions, do you? So get a grip and realize that there is NOTHING wrong
with making a program that can do art for both ASCII and ANSI displays.
Alt.ascii-art is NOT, by a longshot, the only place computer art is used.

And the barn was decent...

> We get enough garbage as it is without shareware programs to make
> more garbage.
> 

Oh, THAT'S a beautiful point of view.

> Most stuff I have seen on BBSs is pure ANSI not Ascii.

Exactly. No one has a problem with that, do they?

> 
> Now I ask you...what good is that in this newsgroup ?
> 

Not much. But it doesn't reduce the functionality of the program A)
outside of this newsgroup and B) if only regular Ascii is used.
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