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From: cg@ami-cg.UUCP (Chris Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What is a good programming language for the Amiga?
Message-ID: <0847.AA0847@ami-cg>
Date: 30 Nov 89 03:43:18 GMT
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In <13262@merrimack.edu> AIN14994@merrimack.edu (Edward Greenwood) asks:

>     I am looking for a flexible programming language that executes fast and
>works well with graphics.  I've heard that Modula-2, C, and Fortran are all
>good computer languages for the Amiga.  Does anyone have any suggestions or
>comments as to what computer language I should buy?

It's been a month or so since I posted anything, so this makes a good excuse!

The answer of course is that you shouldn't BUY any compiler; you should just
trot on down to your nearest Amiga user's group (or decent software store) and
pick up copies of Fish Disks #76, 77 and 201. (Should be available for the
cost of the disks + copying.) They will provide you with a full distribution
of my Draco compiler/system for the Amiga. Code compiled with the compiler on
Fish #201 will execute almost as fast (with 10% in most cases, I'd say) as
that generated by any of the commercial compilers. The language also provides
strong type checking, which can be an immense boon to someone just starting
out with Amiga programming, something which C and Fortran don't do. All of
the languages (except, likely, Fortran) provide essentially the same features,
so graphics programming will be much the same in any of them. I've done a
number of graphics programs in Draco, and I've seen others done by happy
users elsewhere.

Given the price, (free), its a good way to find out if your really do want
to get into this Amiga programing stuff!

P.S. There will be a third version of the compiler coming out in the future,
as soon as I finish with Amiga Empire V2.0 . So far I've added global register
variables (real useful for shared libraries) and data initializations like
those in C.

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