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From: DANFUZZ@BROWNVM.BITNET (Dan Bornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Why keep the //
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Date: 15 Mar 89 22:41:41 GMT
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I am another case of "If I didn't have a ][I wouldn't be a programmer."
As far as I'm concerned the non-windows //-series is still the best environment
for a "budding" programmer: You have BASIC to start with (Actually, I had
INTEGER...), and when you outgrow it, you can start ADDING machine language
with the MiniAssembler, and finally if you're so inclined, to switch completely
to machine.  My first real machine language program (i.e. not 10-line dealies)
was an outgrowth of an Integer program whose routines 1-by-1 I converted to
machine with MiniAssembler alone. I could not have done that on any other
computer I know.

Sure, now I want a Mac, or a Next, but that's not the point; Without something
like the //, programming would probably be a lot more foreign to me.


-dan

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