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From: c160-aw@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (Christian Wiedmann)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Easy of programming, Mac, Amiga
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Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 14:25:40 EDT
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Summary: Programmer vs. User Interface

My opinion in this already belabored subject is that the key issue is not
the interface to the programmer, but the interface to the user. Both the
Amiga and the Mac support a mouse and windowing. What the Amiga lacks is
a clearly defined User Interface. When I sit down with a Mac program, I
expect to be able to use it without reading the manual. From what I've seen
and heard about Amiga software, this is less true for the Amiga. The reason
the Mac is hard to program is because of all the requirements made by Apple.
There is no question, though, that the Amiga hardware is better than the
Mac's. Now if only Commodore were Apple...

		    -Christian

These views are the definitive views of this Universe.