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- From: thecure@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew aardvarkious)
- Subject: Re: ** FINALLY - AN _GREAT_ AMIGA PROGRAMMING LANUAGE
- Message-ID: <thecure.728052928@munagin>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <thecure.727159005@munagin> <alien.02q1@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:55:28 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
-
- >In article <thecure.727159005@munagin> thecure@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew aardvarkious) writes:
- >>I _strongly_ suggest you should all at least _try_ to get amigae21.lha
-
- >Two questions spring to mind:
- > (1) Is it available from any ftp-by-mail site? (for those of us who don't
- > have access to real ftp)
- > (2) How big is it? (for those of us who have to pay big buck$ for email)
-
- >>Easy! - The other incredible thing about it is the _speed_
- >>
- >>- Compilation speed of 10.000 to 35.000 lines/minute on a 7mhz Amiga 500,
- >> 25.000 to 85.000 l/m on a 14mhz Amiga 1200 (both _without_ fastram)
-
- >85 lines a minute? Fast?!
-
- 25 THOUSAND to 85 THOUSAND.
-
-
- >>It also caters specifically to common amiga programming, like this.
- >>
- >>w:=OpenW(20,11,400,100,$200,$F,'My first window in E!',NIL,1,NIL)
-
- >Huh? In what way is this an improvement on the corresponding C code?
-
- Get it , try it. That example was showing how it caters to "common" amiga
- coding, not the easier nicer E stuff. (With C you declare a pointer to
- the structure, pass the pointer to the function, and then call it. With
- E , it's all in the one command.)
-
-
- >Most (all?) Amiga C compilers now include automatic library opening and
- >closing. And what happens when you need libraries other than those four?
-
- You can use _anything_ that C compilers use. It does automatic library etc
- and all the includes are included. :)
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