mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) (04/04/91)
In article <1991Apr3.104218.5224@neon.Stanford.EDU> espie@flamingo.Stanford.EDU (Marc Espie) writes:
One very strong point of the amiga is that you can use whatever tool is best
suited to what you want to do. Just for starters, you have
assemblers, basics, FORTRAN, C, Pascal, ModulaII, C++, forth, scheme, lisp,
prolog, rexx, postscript, tex, awk, bison, flex, mathlab, maple, oberon,
draco, scriptit, etc (sorry for those I've forgotten).
Blah. Compared to most other systems, the Amiga tool selection sucks
rocks.
For example, tell me where I can get an of the following: ABC? ADA?
APL? CLU (my personal favorite language)? Common LISP? EFL? Eiffel?
FP? ML? MORTRAN? Python? OPS5? RATFOR? SAS? SETL? SmallTalk (real
smalltalk, not little smalltalk)?
And some of the offerings are deficient. For example, can you tell me
where I can get: A recent Icon or Perl? A LISP with a compiler? _Any_
language with reasonable access to Intuition (CanDo comes closest, but
it pretty much sucks as a programming environment, and is still a
pain)?
Admittedly, compared to the kinds of systems most people moved to the
Amiga from (me included), the Amiga has an incredible wealth of tools.
But compared to the kinds of world today, it just doesn't cut it.
<mike
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