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From: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
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Subject: Re: What's Wrong with ARP!!!!
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Date: 15 Nov 90 03:22:51 GMT
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In-reply-to: DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu's message of 14 Nov 90 21:20:21 GMT

In article <90318.162021DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
   In article <7039@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da
   Silva) says:

   >In article <1990Nov14.034507.19784@hoss.unl.edu> 252u3130@fergvax.unl.edu
   >(Phil
   >Dietz) writes:
   >> Hmmmph....with the discussion of wild cards, people have been coming
   >> out of the cracks and harassing ARP.  Boy if my memory works right (256
   >> bit of course), when ARP came out, it was the hottest thing to use.

   >Not me, dude. I've been harassing ARP since the beginning.

   >(a) It's all in assembler. That's a big no-no for me.
   >(b) They never got it all together. It was missing major programs (like copy)
   >    and the programs that did come out tended to have weird bugs (um, non
   >    standard features if you like).

   >I'm sure (b) was due to (a).

   Oh, give me a break!!! ARP was a not-for-profit (ad)venture by a group of
   very talented and enthusiastic programmers, and they did a damn fine job, a
   lot better than those cheesy BCPL crap-garbage-explitive commands!!!

I am very happy that there are a few more people out there who give
ARP the good grades it deserves. It was and is one of the greatest
programmers tools for the amiga and I still use it today. It is to
this day the only shell which made all the right design choices,
starting from being small and fast to being largly compatible and
implemented in as a system library.

BTW, what is this about there not being an ARP Copy ? I just checked my
ARP directory (as if I needed to...) and there it is and works fine
since years.

What about founding the AADL , the "Anti Arp Defamation League" ? :-)

        Carl Edman

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