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From: dwight@sugar.hackercorp.com (Dwight Everhart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Turbo 'c' type interface for Amiga
Message-ID: <3600@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 7 Mar 89 18:25:28 GMT
References: <406@corpane.UUCP>
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In article <406@corpane.UUCP>, sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
> I just finished playing (working?) with Borland's Turbo C on my MSDOS 
> machine at work. It is really nice! It has a window like interface 
> with pull down menus, built in text editor, and it is FAST.
> 
> Why isn't there something like this for the Amiga? Talk about 
> bass ackwards.. Here we have a generic msdos machine running a program
> with windows and pull down menus, and over here we have an Amiga, 
> with a built in window/menu interface and a command driven c compiler.
 
Benchmark Modula-2 was a Turbo-like environment.  I can compile, link, and
run my programs just by hitting function keys (from the built-in editor).
Perhaps C will catch up, given enough time.  B^)
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Dwight Everhart               |          "Time is an illusion.
dwight@sugar.uu.net           |           Lunchtime doubly so."
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