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From: page%swap@Sun.COM (Bob Page)
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Subject: Re: next Manx release?
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Date: 18 Jul 89 00:46:29 GMT
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Dave Egan:
>'point-and-shoot' project manager [whatever that is?]"

Eric Giguere:
>The best way to describe it would be as a `visual makefile'.

Exactly right.

>I wouldn't be surprised, though, if this ACE announcement is a bit premature.

Haven't they been saying 'late summer 89' for the last six months or so?
Maybe they're going to be right.

>Personally I'd be satisfied in just getting an ANSI-compatible Manx compiler.

ANSI was mostly done a year ago - I saw it at DevCon/Washington in May '88.
_Maybe_ getting the bugs out took longer than they thought, and the release
date would have been too close to the release date for the integrated
package.  Maybe it's a different story; I don't know.

>After all, with the Amiga it's easy to build our own (semi-)integrated
>environment....

For many of us, yes.  But there are lots of folks with shiny new A500s that
only know BASIC.  For them, ACE is the place, as they say.

..bob