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From: northrup@wpi.wpi.edu (Jim Northrup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Difficulty in programming
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Date: 5 Jun 90 11:36:25 GMT
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In article <1990Jun5.084107.162@agate.berkeley.edu> laba-1ei@e260-3c (Joseph Chung) writes:
>.............................I in no way endorsed the IBM PC when I said it
>was easier to program......................................................
>.....................................................................I've
>toyed with the Pets, 64's, AppleII's, IBM's, and Amigas, and in all cases I
>found it easier to get things done on everything else but the Amiga.
>When I first bought the Amiga, I faced one of my steepest learning curves.
>But hey, maybe I just find this type of programming harder................

I agree with you, 100%.  But it's not really the _Amiga_ that's so hard to
program, so much as GUI's in general.  As somebody pointed out, writing for
MS-Windows or a Mac would be also be hard.

I understood you message as you posted it in the first place: GUI's in general,
and the Amiga in particular, are in fact harder to program than any of the
machines you mentioned above, which typically come without GUI's.

As far as GUI's go, though, the Amiga probably has a fairly easy one to
program.  (e.g. I'm writing X-windows applications  now.  Ugh!)

>.............................................................I didn't know
>all of you had such an easier time learning to program it (compared to a few
>of the aforementioned systems).

Unless they'd programmed GUI's before, I wouldn't believe them if they said
they had an easy time with the Amiga than with (say) a non-Windows PC.

In summary, you're right, they're wrong.  :-)
-- 
Jim Northrup                                               northrup@wpi.wpi.edu
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences             WPI, Worcester MA  01609