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From: blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Blatter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: More assembly questions
Keywords: Abacus Book
Message-ID: <1990Jun1.125607.24646@ifi.unizh.ch>
Date: 1 Jun 90 12:56:07 GMT
References: <1990May17.072036.11335@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <23257@uflorida.cis.uf <265377fd-662.2comp.sys.amiga.tech-1@tronsbox.UUCP> <9074@rouge.usl.edu> <11891@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
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In article <11891@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup) writes:
>
>	As a personal opinion, I dislike most of the Abacus Amiga books.
>They tend to encourage poor programming practices (like not using symbolic
>constants, not using standard include files, making direct rom references,
>making MAJOR assumptions about how system tasks work (assuming that clearing
>a bit in some system task's structure will stop it from running), etc, etc.)
>Note that is a personal opinion.
>
I agree. This seems to be the reason why a lot of German programs crash
on different configurations. (Abacus books are originally published in
German by Data Becker)
>
>	Just get a good book on general amiga programming.  That (and the
>autodocs in the "Includes and Autodocs" RKM) will do you pretty well.  The
>Autodocs define all the interfaces to the system routines.
>
How about a German translation of "libraries & devices"? It will keep
a lot of German programmers from those poor programming practices, because
they'll have an alternative to Data Becker's "books".
>
>Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.

				--Martin

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