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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: UNIX/AmigaOS article in A/C Tech -- yech
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Date: 14 Apr 91 19:53:38 GMT
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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	Have you read the article "UNIX and the Amiga:  An Introduction to
UNIX, for the Amiga Programmer, Part I" in Amazing Computing's Tech magazine,
issue #2?

	IMHO, this article is terrible.  It is riddled with errors and
misconceptions about UNIX.  (One example:  "Ed, an ... editor, is found for
the Amiga and UNIX.  Both AmigaDOS and UNIX also have the EDIT line editor
commands....")  Also, this is a tech magazine, and the article was almost
completely devoid of technical content.  It read like a syntax description
for 80% of its text.  ("The Amiga ECHO has this syntax.  The UNIX syntax
is different....")  All in all, a very poor "Introduction for the Amiga
Programmer."

	If I were to make a guess, I'd say that the author (Mike Hubbartt)
has used UNIX lightly for 1 year or less.  Who is he?  Does he have an e-mail
address?  I'd like to send him some constructive comments.  (No, the above 
flames are not "constructive comments." :-))

                                                        Dan

DISCLAIMER:	They say that you aren't supposed to criticize something
		unless you could do a better job yourself.  I feel justified
		because my job includes teaching UNIX programming to novices.
		Maybe I'll write an article for AmigaWorld Tech Journal.

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