biggers@edsel.UUCP (Mark Biggers) (12/06/87)
(to anyone who knows)
- What WP software for the Amiga do you recommend? I tend to
like TeX/troff over WYSIWYG, but have some good about
WordPerfect...
- What language implementations do you recommend? I used MANX C
for awhile in the past, but the slow turnaround time for
editing, compiling, editing, debugging can discourage anyone not
working full-time on Amiga software. I would *really* like
Smalltalk and C-Scheme, maybe even a decent Logo... I do remember
JForth was available, but write-only Forth code looks like
ancient hieroglyphics... (of course, it'd be nice if Amiga
libraries were supported for your favorite language)
- How about text editors? I think I still have that uEmacs from
1.2 beta around here somewhere.
- Shells? Games? Graphics goodies? All of the above on what Fred
Fish disk #___ (you fill in the blank).
I realize posting all this stuff to the net is a bit much, so
mail to me, please, and I will summarize after a reasonable
number of replies. Thanks much!
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) (12/06/87)
In article <324@siemens.UUCP> biggers@edsel.UUCP (Mark Biggers) writes: >- What language implementations do you recommend? I used MANX C >for awhile in the past, but the slow turnaround time for >editing, compiling, editing, debugging can discourage anyone With a decent amount of memory (2M or more), and good use of one or more of the ASDG recoverable ramdisk (VD0:), the Amiga ramdisk (RAM:), and the dynamic floppy caching program (FaccII), you can hardly call working with Manx C slow. You can keep your editor (MicroGnuEmacs 1b, in my case) in the background at all times, the library files, and cc, as, etc, in VD0:, the object files in RAM:, and the sources on floppy... And to avoid loading the include files over and over, you use Manx's precompiled include file feature. Believe me, under those circumstances, Manx flies. And the cost of such a system isn't all that much more --- VD0: is shareware ($10) and FaccII is about $30. In addition you have the cost of extra memory (~$350-400 for extra 2 Megs for the 2000). Not much at all, if you're really considering doing development work. Oh, VD0: is on Fish 58, I believe. A most for anyone with 1 or more Megs. Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu