Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!rutgers!clyde!cbatt!ukma!sean From: sean@ukma.ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Pattern Matching & documentation, & flame to C-A Message-ID: <5393@ukma.ms.uky.csnet> Date: Tue, 23-Dec-86 21:17:15 EST Article-I.D.: ukma.5393 Posted: Tue Dec 23 21:17:15 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 24-Dec-86 06:39:52 EST References: <8612152348.AA29410@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1135@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1962@tekgvs.UUCP> <1393@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Reply-To: sean@ukma.ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 35 In article <1393@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tim@tomcat.UUCP (Tim Kay) writes: >C-A could publish the source code.... I've seen the developer's manuals. I've seen the Addison Wesley publications. I've seen just about everything else on AmigaDOS and everything else (and I don't even own one yet :-) ). It's a *miracle* that anyone has gotten anything to work. If someone shoved the documentation at me and said "write me a device driver", I think I'd cry. It is the worst, most disorganized documentation that I have ever seen. Don't get me wrong. I think the Amiga is the best thing since sliced bread, but C-A really needs to hire some real documentation writers and produce some good, well ordered, well exampled manuals on the internals of the dos and hardware. One of the reasons software appeared so quickly for the IBM PC is that IBM offered a decent set of manuals. It appears that C-A is waiting for a third party to do just that. I really think this is wrong, and unfair to the people that buy their machines and software. It's also just plain bad business, as IBM will tell ya. To the C-A people on the net: please don't take this personally. I'm not blaming you. It would be kind of nice if you hinted to the people upstairs that the Amiga developers would be willing to pay for some good documentation. At least the situation is not as bad as it is with the Atari ST. From what I've seen, there are some hackers that know more about the thing than the people that designed it. Sean BTW: BCPL???!! Why in God's name BCPL? What's wrong with C? -- =========================================================================== Sean Casey UUCP: cbosgd!ukma!sean CSNET: sean@ms.uky.csnet ARPA: ukma!sean@anl-mcs.arpa BITNET: sean@UKMA.BITNET