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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Time is of the essence on IPC.
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Date: 16 Apr 88 00:30:45 GMT
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In article <1826@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
|>A "demo" version of the Rexx server? That sounds like just what the doctor
|>ordered. What's the extent of this demo version, and is it distributable?

You will have to check with Bill Hawes, since MicroSmiths also sells 
ARexx as an option I suspect they have a deal with Bill. 

|>> What is nice is that using these macros are just as easy as using macros
|>> in MaxiPlan or something, no excursion to the CLI is necessary, no novice
|>> hostile features at all.

|>For a lot of people macro language *are* hostile. That's the only point I was
|>making here.

I am reminded of the saying "Making something that any fool can use and
only fools will use it." [Note this doesn't imply you are being foolish]
It makes the point that at some point, it ceases to be productive to
simplify something.

--Chuck McManis
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