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From: rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: clist.library ???
Message-ID: <348@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 18:59:03 GMT
References: <8804121256.AA15648@MATH.Tau.Ac.IL> <49212@sun.uucp> <5689@well.UUCP>
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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Summary: it DID have SOME use, but it don't no mo

In article <5689@well.UUCP>, ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
> In article <49212@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
> >Don't bother. The clist stuff was pulled out in 1.2 because *no one* uses
> >it and it they needed the ROM space.  [ ... ]
> 
> 	Then why didn't they relegate it to the WorkBench disk, rather than
> toss it completely?  I imagine that it has *some* sort of use; otherwise
> they wouldn't have put it in the system in the first place.

Yes, it DID have a use.  When CAOS was being designed, the same company
that was to implement CAOS was working on a BASIC interpreter that would
complement(compliment,,,, naaahh) CAOS.  This company insisted that unless
they had a clist.library to refer to, it would be difficult (nay --
impossible) to meet their obligations on the BASIC within the time span
of the original contract.  Thus a lot of effort went into making the
clist.library do what was requested. Not MY effort, but it was a 
was a "bear" of a job to accomplish within the requested time frame
:^) and stayed with the system even though CAOS was not to be.  

You'll also note that with the replacement, AmigaDOS, Amy got ABasiC.
So the clist.library became less important.  Re the "missing docs" in
the RKM - after looking over the man pages in the first place, it had
seemed that the contents were pretty self-explanatory (my impression
at the time anyhow) so we tech-responsibles spent more time documenting
things for the RKM that did not stand alone so easily.  Now that I
look back at it, that was a reasonable decision.

Rob Peck	(writer/organizer of RKM's)	...ihnp4!hplabs!ardent!rap