Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!overload!dillon From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: UNIX*ish* Amiga software Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 19:56:57 GMT References: <1991Jun20.093756.1638@wpi.WPI.EDU> Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 36 In article <1991Jun20.093756.1638@wpi.WPI.EDU> chrisf@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris H. Foley) writes: >Hi there folks. I'm amazed. I was just talking to a friend of mine who's an >ST fanatic and he told me (and showed me) that they have BASH (a GREAT shell >which would elevate the amiga to a new level of software development I have the bash source in my in-bin for a while but, alas, no time to port it. Don't let this stop anyone else from porting it through! I have *lots* of unix stuff in my in-bin which I haven't touched in months. In anycase, something like Bash ought to be breeze under 2.0 >The reason I rattled all that off is NOT to make the amiga or the amiga PD >world look bad, I'm just wondering why more effort hasn't been put in to >developing these products... > >It's really easy to criticize and I'll be the first to admit that, but it's >just too bad that we're not up to par with what they've got over there on the >ST :) Well, actually, we are. Take WShell and AREXX, for example. And as far as compilers go DICE and SAS/C are state of the art. We also have AmigaUUCP (the next release will be the most stable due to added workarounds for serial.device bugs). >sincerely, >Chris -Matt -- Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US 891 Regal Rd. uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon Berkeley, Ca. 94708 USA