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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: [Really Microsoft C]
Summary: really carping about Amigabasic
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Date: 9 Dec 88 02:35:31 GMT
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I agree totally; Amigabasic could definitely use some cleaning up!
That editor is really yucky!  It seems like the windows wind up
getting in the way more than they do helping out.  Walter also
pointed out one of my Amigabasic pet peeves - those naughty little
requesters that say "Sayntax error OK?" that don't go away until
moused.  I just saw Microsloth's Quickbasic 4.0 for the IBM world
yesterday .. that is what Amigabasic should be like.  I'm no big
fan of the boys from Redmond, but I actually like qb 4.0.

My vote would have been to keep the ABasiC that was distributed
with the Amiga O/S version 1.0 and fix it up.  I liked ABasiC as it
was relatively lean and mean compared to Amigabasic.  I still find
myself using ABasiC for prototyping things, as it isn't
braindamaged about the serial port as is Amigabasic.  I wrote a
simple Midi librarian for my DX7 in ABasiC using the AUX: device
driver posted to the net.  I tried Amigabasic, but it strips all
the non printable characters from the serial port I/O (and it
doesn't go up to 31.5 Kbaud needed for Midi either).

--Bill