[Coco] Re: Languages

[Richard E. Crislip]

Hello Gene

Well that's the impression I got from listening to a few others too.

On 12/03/03, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 December 2003 18:23, Richard E. Crislip wrote:
>> Hello jdaggett at gate.net
>> 
>> I changed the subjewct to more accuratly reflect the discussion
>> 8=)... BUT there is an "E" language that is used on the Amiga.
>> Haven't tried it myselfe, but quite a few others have.
>> 
>>> David
> 
> I did, and wasn't terribly impressed.  Its data was typeless just like 
> arexx, its garbage collection ate memory like candy, and arexx was a 
> lot better documented.  Jim and I started to write EzCron in E, but 
> there were too many functions on the missing list, so we eventually 
> nosed around in Arexx and found what we needed.
> 
> So what I wrote on the amiga got written in arexx, and then eventually 
> compiled to standalone binary code by RexxPlus, written by a fellow 
> who does graphics work at fomoco, Mark Downing.  EzCron and EzHome 
> were both done in arexx as the src code.  Since EzCron was the only 
> cron that actually worked on the amiga's, we rather had a monopoly in 
> that software.  I'd still like to make a gui for vixiecron that was 
> half as usefull as EzCron's MUI gui was.
> 
> The sad part of that was that William Hawes, who wrote arexx on 
> contract for commode-door, was never paid for all his work.  He 
> should have collected at least a mill, maybe more.
> 
> As for the coco, os9 was it for me, as was basic09, C after we fixed 
> it a bit, and of course pure old assembly.  All were part of a very 
> easily learned time for me because the docs were so good.
> 
> Cheers, Gene
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Regards
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Cruisen                                                         _|_
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                                             Richard