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From: towns@atari.UUCP (John Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FLAMES and SUPPORT IN THE MINUS REALM
Message-ID: <1882@atari.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 21:37:30 GMT
References: <24958@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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in article <24958@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com says:
> 
> Just one question in this discussion...
>  
> If Atari has such a low opinion of the "end users" who buy their machines,
> and can assume that 90% of them only want to run programs, not write them,
> why has Atari traditionally supplied a   *programming language*   with the
> computers..?
>  
> In fact, my ST came with  *two*  programming languages...
>  
> BobR

And there are manuals available for programming in ST BASIC available from
Customer Relations and your local Atari Dealer. So, what's the problem?

-- John Townsend				ames!atari!towns
   Atari Corp, Systems Test