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In article <1aige2INNo1l@moe.ksu.ksu.edu>, raj@phys.ksu.edu (S. Raj Chaudhury) writes:
> In <venable.161@faculty.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu> venable@faculty.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (Wallace Venable) writes:
> 
> >In article <MemYVmm00UzxI6Lkkp@andrew.cmu.edu> rj25+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert W. Jordan) writes:
> 
> >>   I am a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University and I need some help. 
> >>called, "Computer-based Multimedia Development."
> 
> >	Where is
> >		Programming in C/C++
> 
> WHY?? Programming in C/C++ has *NOTHING* to do with Multimedia development?
> Multimedia is a form - it is a way of thinking about delivering a message -
> not a platform or language specific thing!!!
> 
> Too many so-called Multimedia products are video clips strung together with
> some fancy buttons and graphics - CLEARLY THERE IS MUCH MORE TO BE EXPLORED!
> Knowing programming is good, but it misses the point for Multimedia.
> Authoring tools should do the hard-core work - not C/C++

	Clearly, you haven't done anything in multimedia.  You're right that
there is much more to be explored.  If you can't program, where does that
leave you when the off-the-shelf authoring tools don't do or provide what you
want?  Sometimes the authoring tools *do* provide what you want, but the
implementation imposes restrictions or is too unwieldy or slow, so it becomes
unacceptable.  Multimedia is a new and emerging field - *no* authoring system
will give you everything you may want.  And the actual reality is that an
authoring system and custom software are just part of the *methodology* of
creating and delivering a multimedia application.

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