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From: lhotka@incstar.uucp (Glamdring)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: need help learning amiga programming
Message-ID: <1706@incstar.uucp>
Date: 12 Dec 90 12:34:54 GMT
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In article <27348.27630086@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, 2flolump@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> Can anyone direct me to a book that TEACHES me how to program on the Amiga.
> I bought this computer years ago, with the hope that I could learn to 
> program it.  But I soon discovered that the OS was something that really
> had to be learned to take advantage of all the features.  Anyway, I own
> the Amiga ROM KERNEL manual:Libraries & Devices and it seems to be sketchy
> on many things.
> I really am starting to dislike C the more I read it,  I don't know why 
> everyone praises it so.  I guess those who learn its cryptic commands get
> some pride from how others struggle with it.  Anyway, I have owned TDI
> Modula 2 for quite awhile and while I like the language, which I believe
> is more readable than C and has more software engineering features, which C
> lacks, I find that this compiler is inferior.  
> This leads to my final questions.  Does anyone know of a good Modula 2 
> development package that is actually used?  Does anyone know of a good
> book on how to program the amiga in Modula 2?  Does anyone have a 
> good recommendation on a C compiler that is affordabe, if I do indeed find
> this is the only language with which the amiga can be programmed effectively.
> 
> Thank You.
> Jason Wilson.


Avant-Garde Software (makers of Benchmark Modula-2) has released a book
teaching how to write in Modula-2 on the Amiga.  I have not seen the book yet,
but am seriously thinking about getting it as it sounds very nice.  It comes
with a couple disks of examples also.

	Avant-Garde Software
	2213 Woodburn
	Plano, TX 75075
	214/964-0260

I am not associated with these folks other than that I own their Modula-2
compiler and have been VERY impressed by it and their support of it.
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