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From: rre@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Roger Espinosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: RESCUE SQUAD
Message-ID: <3796@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 08:39:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpg.3796
Posted: Thu Sep 10 08:39:25 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 07:44:27 EDT
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Organization: Velveteen Rabbit Corps
Lines: 38
Keywords: Help Column, A+, by Gary B. Little
Summary: I agree!!

> I subscribe to these magazines almost more out of habbit than because I
> value their ideas, which is sad.  Today, it seems that more people are
> worried about AppleWorks templates and dialing "on-line" than using
> them.  I realize that a _lot_ of people use Apples with AppleWorks, I
> do!  But I also program.  I _like_ to program.  But these days computers
> are just tools. They always have been, but you really need to understand
> how a tool is created, or at least the theory of how it works, to really
> use it, and understand it's limitations.  "too fast" calculation is a
> Well, enough of my diatribe.  I think you get the point.  It's sad.
> 
> 
> Sean Kamath
> -- 

Yes!

You can see this "trend" in all computer magazines: just look at back issues
in Byte, or in Creative Computing, when the only people who had computers 
on their desks were the ones who really wanted to get into the computer
(anyone ever see the Apple ads which showed great inventors of the past 
and "What do you think they could have done had they had an Apple II?"). Now
all the advertising is geared to "Hey! Look! We have more software than the
next guy!"

Why are all the programming books which go beyond "Look! Here's the RETURN
key!" dated 1983 and before? Hasn't there been *more* innovation since
then? Why is it so hard to find books on programming the Apple, instead of
books on AppleWorks?  AAAAAAARRRGGH!

Oh well. Sigh. So it goes.

Hasta,
Roger

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		Roger R. Espinosa
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