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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaBasic
Message-ID: <207@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 90 11:45:13 GMT
References: <1930@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1930@bnlux0.bnl.gov> creutz@bnlux0.bnl.gov (michael creutz) writes:
>Amigabasic does have serious shortcomings.  It often crashes
>the machine

Yes, but we know already how to work around all these caveats.
E.g. running on a 68020 you shouldn't use real SUB's!

>It seems
>not appear to run at all on the 3000.  These problems could 
>be fixed, but probably never will because of the community
>attitude.

There are rumors that we will get a new version Real Soon Now.

>On the other hand, it does make trying simple ideas simple.
>Quick changes in a program are trivial, and setting up fancy
>graphics screens etc. only takes a few lines.  All system 
>functions are available through libraries, and it is easy
>to put an assembly routine in an array.  

Fully agreed.

>Speed is not really  an issue here.  Any interpreted language
>is inherently slow (AREXX and AmigaBasic are comparable in
>speed). 

As far as I know about AREXX, I hear the same. But more important:
Though AREXX also is a full programming language, it is not as easy
to use (ok, I don't have experience with it yet, only looked through some
books and examples) and not as general purpose as AmigaBasic.

>I feel it is important for a computer to have an easy to
>use language for both beginners and simple playing around.
>It should be included with the computer so all users will
>have one common ground.  I hope that AmigaVision is 
>successful in filling this need.

AmigaVision too is something different than a general purpose programming
language. I fear it wouldn't serve you for eg a 5 line program to do some
re-formatting of a big data file.

>Are there other closet basic programmers out there?
>Mike
Yesssssir!
   
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