Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ucdavis!egg-id!ui3!wsucshp!kinner From: kinner@wsucshp.UUCP (Bill Kinnersley ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: More Electronic Arts Bashing... Message-ID: <160012@wsucshp.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 10:25:43 EDT Article-I.D.: wsucshp.160012 Posted: Thu Jul 16 10:25:43 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 06:40:49 EDT References: <3526@well.UUCP> Organization: WSU Computer Science Lines: 38 In <3526@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: > First, you're not developing > native, so you have very little feeling for the machine you're writing > code for. By using the machine all the time for everything, you get > up-close-and-personal knowledge of what will guru the machine, and what > won't. You get to know how the machine behaves, and how to write a > product that will obey all the rules. By developing on the AT, you're > divorced from the Amiga, and just think of it as "The Target Machine." > This is not a good mindset to have when writing commercial > applications. By the same token, I would like to encourage us "natives" to experience the real flavor of the machine, and use the Workbench once in a while. It's great that we have both line-oriented and visual interfaces available, but I think that many programmer-types who sit and use the CLI all day eventually come to think of the Workbench interface as being solely for little kids and computerphobes. Instead of a "Target Machine", you're writing for a "Target User." I think many of the programs out there would have been much easier to use if the author had been forced to become a user himself for a while. > Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape ihnp4!ptsfa -\ > \_ -_ Bike shrunk by popular demand, dual ---> !{well,unicom}!ewhac > O----^o But it's still the only way to fly. hplabs / (pronounced "AE-wack") > "Work FOR? I don't work FOR anybody! I'm just having fun." -- The Doctor ----------- O <- If .signature is too large, click here to iconify "Nesting is for the birds" --Bill Kinnersley USENET: ...!ucbvax!ucdavis!egg-id!ui3!wsucshp!kinner INTERNET: kinner%wsu@RELAY.CS.NET CSNET: kinner@cs1.wsu.edu MAIL: CS Dept, Washington State Univ, Pullman WA 99164-1210 PHONE: (509)332-4008