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- Subject: Re: Programming
- Message-ID: <92321.132122DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
- From: <DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:21:22 EST
- References: <mwm.2n75@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <Bxrqq2.C77@csugrad.cs.vt.edu><mwm.2nmz@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
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- In article <mwm.2nmz@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>, mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us
- (Mike Meyer) says:
-
- >> AMOS that WILL let you do everything on the workbench if you want, instead
- >> of forcing you to use your own private screen.
-
- >Like I said - the problem is the package, not the language. It'd be
- >nice if they fixed it.
-
- No it would not be nice! Let me ask you, what is the point of making a new
- programming package with the same limitations as the previous (e.g.
- AmigaBasic)? Well, none. Gee, I guess the point is that AMOS let's you do
- things easily that are -impossible- normally. But since it doesn't do
- EVERYTHING under the sun, it's no good. Couldn't use more than one
- programming language. Oh no!
-
- >This is a good reason NOT to start with AMOS, especially since there
- >are alternatives that are easier to use, and are system-compliant; at
- >least for most things.
-
- First of all, do you know -any- beginning programmer who's first
- inspiration is to produce some kind of system-compliant GUI thing?
- Hell no. They bought an Amiga for its custom chips and want to make it
- work for them. Besides, programming GUIs is boring as anything; why
- would a recreational programmer want to do it? Just so he can have
- the approval of stuffy people like you? Hehe.
-
- >"Doing it a little differently" means "it looks like it's not
- >multitasking, and it screws up other programs, and it confuses
- >people." That's more than I can say about most programs.
-
- What can I say, you are easily confused. :-)
-
- >It also appears to steal keyboard input, and disable certain intuition
- >calls (or at least cause them not to happen). This means that hotkey
- >commodites in general don't work. Of course, given the general
- >behavior of AMOS, it could be some other obscure thing it's doing
- >wrong. While these things aren't a problem per se, such behavior is a
- >bug in anything but a game (and in most of those).
- ╗╗╗╗╗╗╗╗╗╗╗╗╗╗╗╗╗╗╗╗
- Just adds to your credibility. :-)
-
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