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- From: cjfst4@cis.pitt.edu (Chad Freeman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: ** FINALLY - AN _GREAT_ AMIGA PROGRAMMING LANUAGE
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:37:37 GMT
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- Jeff Dickson (jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
- : Code portabilty seems to be of great importance here. How does E fit in? As
- : far as I know, E is not available on any other platform. For a novice prog-
- : rammer, C would be the better language to go with, because it is useable
- : elsewhere.
-
- : Jeff
-
- I think E is availible on other platforms, but it does have a 'machine-
- specific' philosophy, i.e. it says to hell with portability, lets make it
- easier to program a specific machine instead. This makes it easy to learn,
- and for a beginning programmer its more important to have an easy language
- than a popular one (just ask my CS dept. which uses M2 for most classes).
- After all, once you learn one procedural language, its easy enough to pick up
- any other procedural language.
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- Chad Freeman mail: cjfst4+@pitt.edu
- The end.
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