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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OPEN LETTER TO CBM
Keywords: LETTER,DEVELOPER,SUPPORT,IDEA
Message-ID: <638@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 90 14:01:13 GMT
References: <7259@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <7259@sugar.hackercorp.com> davidm@sugar.hackercorp.com (David Martin) writes:
>  Why doesn't Commodore support some form of developer
>support system similar to Apple computers Macintosh
>Programmer Workshop (MPW)? This system gives developers
>tools, source code and programs that make the Macintosh
>interface seamless and basically the same from software
>to software. Is CBM planning to do something like this?
>Or have they already done so? 

They have. Ok, you don't get a compiler from Commodore directly,
but there exist enough good and professional ones on the market.
To get a developer up and programming, they can get from CATS
everything they need: docs on paper and many tools/sample progs
on disks. There are the new gadtools (only for 2.0) that make
the hard part of Amiga programming much easier. And there are
disks with example programs from all the ROM Kernel Manuals and
all the last Developer Conferences.

Another issue is the "same interface from software to software".
Amiga has a politics in this issue that is more liberal than
Apple's. The programmer has more choices how to do things.
This ends up in more differently looking programs on the Amiga,
which is contrasted by utterings of some Mac programmers saying
they feel like put into a straightjacket. Well, this is the area
of personal taste...

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk