Allegro is Bad—

Look, this isn’t a pride issue, but it is an issue of standardization! I don’t care if people use British or American spelling conventions in general. However, in programming, it is well established that everyone uses American English spellings for code. Not because it’s better or any other silly reason, but because it’s a de facto standard that simply prevents errors. Most of the world doesn’t use English every day, but in code they do. Even in Allegro’s Xcode template, which has a simple “hello world” I see centre. Any other time that would be great and fine and I wouldn’t care at all. But in code, it should be center. Especially in C!! Unless you have an alias for a method or function in code that provides for different languages, don’t do it. It’s just asking for error-ridden code by others. I’m not liking Allegro one bit so far.

SDL, I miss you already…