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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Aztec and Lattice. Do they suck?
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Date: 8 Dec 89 16:38:13 GMT
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In <1287@becker.UUCP>, bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
>	Thanks, Dave, for making this point. "Rolling
>	your own" with ARexx is *really* a nice idea,
>	and I think it will be quite a while before all
>	thr permutations of it are explored. Rexx comes
>	from the IBM mainframe environment originally,
>	but it is a bigger concept than that. I'm impressed
>	with the Amiga community for being able to absorb
>	& utilize such things - the synergy of the hardware
>	and software is pretty amazing...

Because I am so outspoken about my computer of choice, and about how bad the
Big Blue Blight really is, I am often accused of being biased automatically
against anything IBM or near-IBM. When I rail against integrated environments
in such things as compilers, the IBM types within earshot figure it's sour
grapes beause I don't have Turbo Pascal or Turbo C or Turbo APL or whatever.

What they can't seem to understand is that on their machines, an integreated
environment for a compiler is necessary in order to get the benefits of ease of
use, while on the Amiga it is not only unnecessary, but counter-productive and
needlessly restrictive.

VM/CMS users know all about the benefits of REXX and multitasking; after all,
it was the users of that OS that made REXX what it is today, by popular demand,
something which IBM generally tries to ignore until it is sufficiently
profitable to take notice of it. Someday those in the IBM PC camp will know all
about the benefits too, and their tune will change.

I have several products that provide an integrated editor... HiSoft Basic,
Hisoft DevPac Amiga, Benchmark Modula-2, C.A.P.E., and probably a few more. In
all cases, the editor supplied is not a bad editor, but is not even close to my
favourite in the ways that are important to me. Resukt? I run each and every
one of those packages from the CLI, editing with CEDPro, and writing such tools
as I need, at the time I feel the need for them.

I realize that the I am preaching to the choir here, having responded to
someone who agrees with me, but it was a place to hang this on.

-larry

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|   //   Larry Phillips                                                 |
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