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From: wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Basic On a 3000?
Summary: The idea is to move to ARexx
Message-ID: <3550@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 19 Aug 90 16:16:42 GMT
References: <14617@venera.isi.edu>
Reply-To: wfh58@leah.albany.edu.UUCP (William F. Hammond)
Organization: Dept of Math & Stat, SUNYA, Albany, NY
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In article <14617@venera.isi.edu> schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur) writes:
>At first I found it rather strange that AmigaBASIC wasn't included with the
>software that came with my 3000. Not even with the 1.3 software. After trying
> . . .
>Does this mean that I HAVE to program in C from now on? ...
> . . .
  The idea seems to be that ARexx is now the standard high level interpreted
language for the Amiga.  In almost every way ARexx is superior to AmigaBASIC,
and it is no more difficult to learn.
  The ARexx language is recursive (a routine may call itself), and a routine
may "compute" its own future code.
  Additionally, ARexx has become the user-level backbone for inter-process
communication on the Amiga.
  Your editor and your terminal program, written independently, can talk to
each other according to your instructions, provided only that each opens an
"ARexx message port" through which it can receive instructions in its internal
command language.  (The freely distributable editor "dme" by Matt Dillon and
the freely distributable terminal program "VLT" by Willy Langeveld are
an example of a pair that can be hooked up this way.)  Additionally, the
instructions that are being tossed back and forth can be "computed" according
to your instructions.

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William F. Hammond                   Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
518-442-4625                         SUNYA, Albany, NY 12222
hammond@leah.albany.edu              wfh58@albnyvms.bitnet
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