Subj : Re: HA
To   : Exodus
From : Atreyu
Date : Sun Aug 14 2022 22:45:27

On 14 Aug 22  20:23:12, Exodus said the following to Atreyu:

E> I know ... I would LOVE to add it ... but I don't see the worth .... If 
E> someone wants to write it, hell yeah I'll add it.  Do we need it?  No.  Woul
E> it be nice?  Yes.  Would anyone use it?  Maybe.

Why would you love to add it now? Its introducing a storage format that is 30
years too late.

Jam is an absolute clusterfuck of programming. I can't even BEGIN to explain
how fucked it is. Theres a reason every BBS author uses the same Pascal unit
written by some masochistic weirdo years ago. Even Mystic uses it.

To do something so simple, like load one fucking message into memory... Well
that takes several operations, several files... several fucking variables.
Did I mention that kludge-lines must be correctly parsed and reassembled
into the body of the message (because those are stored seperately) and you
must increment a retarded access-counter... to load one fucking message.

I'll save you the fuckery involved in writing a simple message to a Jam base.

This is a format written by that Frontdoor dick of an author and a couple of
l33t teenagers. I'll never understand why its popular and why the concept of
storing messages on a BBS had to be so fucking complicated with the most
fucked of formats. *.MSG, HDR/DAT actually isn't bad compared to fucking Jam.

Atreyu

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