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From: swklassen@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Steven W. Klassen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What's so FUN about the ST?!?
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Date: 20 Jun 89 01:16:35 GMT
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In article <8906170329.AA03128@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> TK0GRM1@NIU.BITNET (Gordon Meyer) writes:
>Hello Netters!  I'm a lowly ST *user*...the only programming
>language I've ever used is basic (aside from a tiny little bit
>of Z80 assembly a few years ago) so I am not, by any stretch,
>a "programmer".  Having had my ST for a few years I've often
>seen remarks by people that ARE programmers..indicating the ST
>is "fun" to program.  These comments have finally gotten my
>curiousity up....
>
>What is so fun about programming on the ST?
>
>Note that I don't want to be a programmer...so don't try and sell
>me any packages.  Consider it cocktail party conversation.
>

If you don't like to paint, you won't like it any more on canvas than on
cardboard.

If you don't like to hunt, you won't like it any more with a 7mm Magnum than
with a .22 rimfire.

If you don't like to drive, you won't like it any more in a 911 Turbo than
in an Austin mini.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE TO PROGRAM, YOU WON'T LIKE IT ANY MORE ON AN ATARI THAN ON
AN IBM PC!!!!!!!!!!!


Steven W. Klassen
Computer Science Major
University of Waterloo

PS - I love to paint/hunt/drive and love to program on my ST!