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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!rossi
  2. From: rossi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Rosenkranz)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
  4. Subject: Re: C vs Action!
  5. Date: 28 Jan 1993 09:40:54 GMT
  6. Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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  15. wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) writes:
  16.  
  17.  
  18. >Was Action! ever available on any other platofrxxxx platforms? Is it
  19. >a dialect of BASIC?
  20.  
  21. No! Action! is a 'normal' programming language. Its paragon is C, but it
  22. was created especially for the 8 bit ATARIs and their abilities.
  23.