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From: hr@uicsl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Action! Programming
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Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 22:44:00 EST
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RE:
	"..and I am still uncertain as to why the odd spacing of the lines...
	...What is the advantage of Action! over BASIC, Pascal or C?..."

Spaces are ignored in ACTION! except as separators. I don't remember the
article, but sometimes these programs are scrunched to fit the magazine's
column width.

ACTION! is a compiled language designed for the Atari. It is much faster
than BASIC and probably faster than about any language other than assembler.
It also comes with a screen editor.

ACTION! has been out for a few years. Anyone who is a regular reader of
either ANTIC or ANALOG has heard of it. One of them ran a short tutorial
series on it a while back. I just wish there were more ACTION! programs
in the magazines.
						harold ravlin
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