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From: liberte@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: NEON! ?
Message-ID: <99700024@uiucdcs>
Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 02:02:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 02:02:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA!liberte    Jul 12 01:02:00 1985


I found NEON to be, unfortunately, very FORTH-like.  I have developed
an abhorance for unreadable syntax.  I think my first project will
be developing infix fixes of a general nature.  But if you want to
do tricky things with the dictionary, you need extra documentation which
costs extra.

I had nothing but an evening of crashes while trying to use NEON with
RAMdisk or Switcher.  Groan and moan...  Seems that it requires the whole
system to be in one place so you cannot split off NEON from its loadable 
classes.  Somehow, it busted (made unloadable) my copy
of the software during a crash, but I wasnt even writing anything.

Nothing in the manual that I could find told how to reference files on
alternate volumes. 

Opening the editor desk accessory twice causes an infinite stream of bombs.

Many errors that would crash other systems are caught and reported by NEON,
but the display is generally a mess - menus are left inverted, it writes
in the wrong windows sometimes, prompts are not always given, etc.

And there is no floating point yet.  Dont wouldnt worry if you missed the
promotional period.

Dan LaLiberte
liberte@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA
ihnp4!uiucdcs!liberte