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From: manes@vger.nsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: What's Wrong with ARP!!!!
Message-ID: <253.2747d0bd@vger.nsu.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 90 16:31:57 GMT
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In article <90318.162021DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>, DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> 
> 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!!!
> 
> Feel free to flame me, but stop flaming ARP!
> 
> -- Dan Babcock

I have absolutely hated ARP since its very beginning.  The name 
'AmigaDOS Replacement Project' says it all.  It says to me anyway,
that Commodore does not know what it is doing and look with ARP
we can do it "right".
 
Well history has proven that ARP has produced more strange problems,
incompatibilities and other oddities than it ever solved.  It also
proves that the masses can't do a better job.

The *only* thing that came from the ARP Project (??) was the arp.library.
This finally gave a fairly simple (though brain-damaged) file requestor.

Personally, if I find a commercial package that relies on the ARP command
set, I get rid of it.
 
It is hard enough for most to learn AmigaDOS, adding a command set that
doesn't work particularly well does nothing but add a support headache
for Commodore and their dealers, and makes the outsiders believe that
AmigaDOS needed replacement.
 
I support Dan Silva's position on this.
 

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