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From: U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A European point of view (LONG)
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Date: 7 Dec 90 08:26:17 GMT
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G'day,

Jean-Noel MOYNE (jnmoyne@lbl.gov ) writes:
> [...]
> where developpers can go and try their programs. On the other hand there 
> are still a lot of books you buy to learn how to program the Amiga that 
> will teach you dirty programming. I've seen some of these books (mainly 
> from Data Becker which is the main publisher for Amiga literature) where 
> on the floppy disk given with the book you have 2 versions of the example 
> program, one for 1.2 and the other one for 1.3 .... why ? The program does 
> direct jumps in the ROM... draw your own conclusions...

Perhaps Commodore should write and have published (in various languages) a
series of "How to program the Amiga" _texts_ from the beginner to advanced
levels?

I know I'd buy some of them. {Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against
the RKM's but they are references no? _I_ prefer to mix my learning with a
balance of text book and reference manual learning.   My first programming
"text" was a reference manual (my friends sold it to me in disgust as they
could not understand it.  I used that book a lot! :-)}

In fact what I'd most like to see (but never expect to) is a CBM seal of
approval for other publishers' Amiga texts and reference manuals.

Sort of like the "this software is AmigaDOS 2.x compatible" stickers.

:-)

> JNM
> 
> for(i=0;i>0;)
>   printf("I know, my American is awfull!\n");

Perhaps you you should check the warranty on your American. Perhaps the
faulty parts him/her are replaceable? :-)

yours truly,
Lou Cavallo.