njd@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (nick.j.dimasi) (02/02/90)
The poster of the article-to-which-this-is-a-followup asked if ACTION! is
still around.
The answer is: You bet it is! I have had ACTION! for oh, around 5 years now,
and although I don't have a LOT of time to program with it, I have a goodly
amount of C programming experience ('been a UNIX/C guy since '79/'80, depending
on whether you count school) and: I THINK that ACTION! is the BEST 8-bit
language you can get! It may not be "portable" to other 8-bit machines, but
if one is a REAL DIEHARD Atari (8-bit) user, who cares if it will run on them
other pieces of garbage? :-) Aside from BASIC and assembler (machine lang.),
more programs are written in ACTION! than other languages - and ACTION! is
structured somewhat like PASCAL (with IF...FI, DO...OD borrowed from ALGOL,
if I recall correctly what little ALGOL I ever knew), but not as strictly
typed (typing is more akin to C, actually types CHAR and BYTE are interchange-
able, for example...), yet not as cryptic as C (i.e. the language doesn't
have so many ways to write one statement, most of them unreadable :-).
Get your hands on an ICD catalog for their price (maybe $79.95, I have it
at home) and check with your dealer - you can usu. get ICD carts. for much
less from a dealer. (I got SDX for $60, lists in ICD for $79.95, or at least
it did, MEMORY FAULT***** :-)
Have fun!
Nick DiMasi Uniq Digital Technologies, Inc.
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| (Network Software Ctr., Lisle, IL)weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Weaver) (02/02/90)
ICD has purchased the rights to Action! after buying out
Optimized System Software (OSS). It should be available from them.
andy...
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