From: sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber)
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Subject: Re: allegro == or != programming
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 22:08:35 GMT
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From: Gruber Gerhard
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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 17:25:40 +0100:

>For too long have these poor people have taken for granted the use of Wintel and
>APIs. If we had a good processor to program on, we wouldn't need APIs (heard of many
>APIs on the ST/Amiga/Mac?). Put it this way: on the ST about half the applications on
>the market were 100% ASM. This included Papyrus, a document processor which had more

Well, in these good old days (did I hear somebody snigger there?) ASM was the
only language you could really use. I wouldn't go for ASM today because to me
it is more important to get applications running across platforms. I really
hate it when I wrote an utillity I like and then I go to Linux, DOS or Windows
and I don't have.

>features than Word'98 could shake a stick at. You couldn't do that on a Wintel
>machine (did I hear someone calling VB5?).

Isn't Word a VB frontend? :)

Where do you want to crawl today? :)

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   Gerhard

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