Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tronsbox!bleys
From: bleys@tronsbox.UUCP (Bill Cavanaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaBasic
Message-ID: <2675c414-219d.2comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 90 06:01:58 GMT
References: <1930@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <13416@wpi.wpi.edu>
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>Hopefully, Commodore will continue to upgrade AmigaBASIC.

For better or worse, Commodore has nothing to do with AmigaBasic.  It was
written, and the rights were retained, by MicroSoft.  Can anybody imagine
Bill Gates trying to push Amiga sales?

You're right, there should be a Basic or Pascal interpreter packaged with
the machine, but right now, they're going with AmigaVision, which is a much
more useful tool for the average user, rather than for programmers.  ARexx
is in there for the frustrated programmer in the audience, too!

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