Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!imagen!atari!danscott From: danscott@atari.UUCP (Dan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: FLAMES and SUPPORT IN THE MINUS REALM Message-ID: <1901@atari.UUCP> Date: 18 Dec 89 23:55:38 GMT References: <24958@cup.portal.com> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA. Lines: 15 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... You call LOGO and ST BASIC *REAL* programming languages? Dan