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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Still searching...
Summary: Say thats no so Joe!
Keywords: ste, help
Message-ID: <474003ce.14a1f@force.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 89 20:45:36 GMT
References: <2352@pkmab.se> <1830@atari.UUCP> <2370@pkmab.se> <1854@atari.UUCP>
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In article <1854@atari.UUCP>, kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
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> daniel@pkmab.se (Daniel Deimert) writes:
> | I can assure you -- you won't be able
> | to sell a lot of computers if you don't tell them how to program it!
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> I seriously doubt that the _majority_ of people who buy Atari
> computers, or any other computers for that matter, have the slightest
> desire to program their machines.  The simple fact is, most people who
> buy computers want to _use_ their computers.  They don't want to be
> bothered with "programming" the things.  Where a computer company
> will lose is if there is no software available for the computers.  It
> is important to make sure that professional programmers know how to
> program the computers, not end users.

Ken, that just isn't so!! *ALL* STers are hackers and coders!
The ST is soo much easier to program than an IBM PC or a Mac that naturally
*ALL* Real Programmers Program on STs!!


> | And there're a lot of developers on the net, too.
See, STers are programmers!!

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> -- 
>    |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
>    |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
>   / | \  #include <disclaimer>
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