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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Difficulty in programming
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Date: 6 Jun 90 19:14:08 GMT
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In article <1990Jun5.084107.162@agate.berkeley.edu> (Joseph Chung) writes:
>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 didn't know
>all of you had such an easier time learning to program it (compared to a few
>of the aforementioned systems).
>So what's wrong here ?? :)

It is all relative to what you have done before. Is there really a lot
of difference be learning that poking addresses X, Y, and Z will put
a C64 into Hi-res color mode, versus calling function OpenScreen() with
parameters X, Y, and Z will get you an Amiga Screen in Hi-res color mode?

If you learn how to program on a PC maybe it is tougher than if you learned
how to program on a window based box. I think a lot of people took offense
at the implication in your message that the Amiga was _gratuitously_ 
harder to program. Meaning that for some reason the designers had made
up a bunch of rules on programming just to make it harder to program.
This was of course not the case and everyone let you know what they
thought. 


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