Quote from: critor on October 16, 2010, 11:01:32 am

Don't worry, we were allready aware of his existence.

Quote from: Lionel Debroux on October 16, 2010, 11:42:39 am

Indeed, we were already aware of him...

Without the context those two post may sound a bit rude (in the way that it may sound like everyone should know Nelson Sousa the second they come to birth), but they mean something else and aren't meant to be. Nelson Sousa is a well-known TI-Nspire programmer on Omnimaga, TI-BANK and some other TI websites, but not in a positive way. He is against 3rd-party development for the TI-Nspire because he doesn't want games to be available for the TI-Nspire and he bashed quite a lot of great programmers and contributors from Omnimaga and TI-BANK. I wouldn't be surprised if he was helping TI to block exploits used by Ndless.

In other words, while Nelson Sousa did a bunch of great math programs, he has a very bad reputation of trolling in the TI community, especially here, since Omnimaga is mostly game programming oriented.

Some posts, unless they were moderated, can be found at http://groups.google.com/group/tinspire/browse_thread/thread/2978472efdd30e01/1a7a60834175530a?q=nleash&lnk=ol& . I am certain there are others and I believe I did see rude posts on ticalc.org too in the past. If he ever joins Omnimaga his nickname will immediately appear in our watch list in the staff forum.

"asm? asm is useless educational-wise and programming-wise"

I cant find the original quotes but that was the general idea

yes, he trolls us, so while he may program in Math, he is otherwise a troll

he insulted calc84 about gbc4nspire if memory serves me right

"it is just another port, there is nothing special about it"

and

"asm? asm is useless educational-wise and programming-wise"

I cant find the original quotes but that was the general idea

Not to be rude, but I honestly don't think Nelson Souna's documents are that great.  I can't say I have tried all of them, but for most of them that I have tried, I have not been too impressed.  For example, the Periodic Table document is very hard to use as compared to the one on the 84 or TI-89 periodic tables.  It takes me a good, solid minute to scroll to a specific element using the clickpad/touchpad because I can never line the cursor up with the corner of the element square.  This is a task that would take seconds if the table was in ASM and the arrow keys were used to move between the elements.

The only document the Nelson Souna has written that is on my calculator is the Chemistry Library, which I must add is incomplete.  I added many functions to it to make it more useful (which I can't use now since I downgraded my OS ).

Yeah I remember that. It's quite sad. Fortunately he doesn't do that very often, though, and only does it on TI-Nspire Google Group, so we're kinda fine. I just kinda wish people would recognize the hard work it takes to write certain programs. Maybe his files are good, but Calc84maniac stuff is also very good. Just because they're calc games or emulators don't make them bad.

I can't really understand why someone would be against 3rd party programming. Okay, you can not like it and see it as a waste of time. That's fine. But to feel that no one should be able to program? Plus, some programs take a hell of a lot of math to write. You ARE dealing with a machine that only accepts numbers as input. Playing around with it is almost as good as a math book sometimes.