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From: braner@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (braner)
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Subject: Re: ACTION and the ST
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Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 23:19:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 18 23:19:45 1986
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Summary: Demand for "BASIC-like" languages?

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I have a feeling that there are some people out there who are afraid of C
or hate edit-compile-link cycles or whatever, use their computer for
word-processing and such and keep waiting for a programming language they
feel like using.  (ST-BASIC doesn't count as a language as far as I'm
concerned, and LOGO may be too wierd for many.)  I don't know anything
about ACTION, but if it is not too low-level maybe it DOES have a market!
I posted a while ago that HBASIC, an incrementally compiled BASIC-like
language for the ST, is about to come out (beta test version supposedly
out now but I havn't got one yet).  Its emphasis is on SPEED (including
floating-point) and on access to assembly.

If there are people reading this and longing for an "easy" language
or interactive (but not reverse Polish) environment, let us hear!
(Personally I'll stick to C for now, thanks to the 15 sec compile-and-
link time with Megamax on a RAM disk - just wish they'd fix those bugs...)

- Moshe Braner