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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: M2Amiga, another bunch of answers
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Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 18:36:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  4 18:36:12 1987
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Keywords: M2Amiga, Modula-2, Programming
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Markus:
> Me (Peter):
> >Me too. My biggest complaint with highly structured languages is that you
> >can't see anything but the structure.
> 
> I'm currently working with a syntax directed editor for Modula-2 on the PC
> and now that I'm used to it I think this is a good thing. Forget about
> typing keywords, semicolons, indentation etc. Very nice features are wrap and
> unwrap of LOOP/IF/WHILE etc statements. Select a block and say 'make an IF'.
> Not yet available on the Amiga, and I don't know if it ever will be.

That wouldn't be the M2SDS syntax directed editor, would it? I was about as
impressed with it as with any other syntax directed editor I've ever used.

That is, not at all. I know some people swear by them, but I've yet to find
one that's worth the effort. Some of the tools they provide are useful, but
just about all of them (autoindent, for example) are available without the
overhead.

Now, if you can do a GOOD version of "vi" for the Amiga in Modula, that'd
be a different matter. Start off with the ed-clone from "Software Tools"...
might even make me a convert :->.
-- 
-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
-- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.