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From: SLMYQ@USU.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Macro languages
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Date: 12 May 88 02:21:00 GMT
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Has anyone read that special issue of BYTE magazine (sorry, can't remember
the date) which is devoted to software?  There's an article in it by Bill
Gates about macro languages.  Very good.  Say, ya think the Amiga could
beat the IBM to standardizing macro languages?  I don't want to start a
big discussion right now (please wait 'till we've standardized IPC), but
it's something to think about.

If you missed that issue, it's about all the many different macro
languages used by different programs.  If we could create one standard
language which can span applications through IPC, with certain commands
which are application-dependent, things would be MUCH nicer.  He was
also talking about rather than creating a special macro language which
would be standard, making a speciall "virtual processor" which would
process simple commands, which would be compiled or interpreted from
more complex macro languages.  That way, the beginners could have a
BASIC-like language, the hackers could have C, the brains could have
Pascal,...



                                Bryan Ford (SLMYQ@USU.BITNET)