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- From: dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au (David Benn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Which language?
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 03:16:43 GMT
- Organization: University of Tasmania
- Message-ID: <4ca82r$am@cam.its.utas.edu.au>
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- In article <550.6571T1386T2209@Th0r.foo.bar>, ryanm.io.org (ryanm) writes:
- >
- > I'd like to start some serious programming on the Amiga. So far I've
- >only programmed in BASIC languages and a little AREXX. I'd like to learn
- >something that would better prepare me for university.
- >
- > So I'd like some opinions on what higher end languages are good for
- >programming. I know about SAS C, DICE, Amiga E, HiSoft Pascal... Which
- >languages are best suited for beginners such as me? Thanks.
-
- Certainly, learning C well will stand you in good stead insofar as learning
- about structured programming is concerned. It will also give you the
- ability to read the RKMs and program the Amiga at the library/device level.
-
- HS Pascal gives you hooks into the system letting you do system-level
- programming just like C. There's plenty more C source than Pascal though.
- Also, Standard Pascal doesn't have the language extensions necessary to
- do system-level programming, whereas "standard" C does.
-
- Which BASICs have you programmed in? Tried ACE BASIC? It's freeware, has
- C-like structs, lets you do system-level program like the above languages
- as well as higher-level programming (gives lots of help with GUI stuff).
- You can also use ACE to do structured programming, learn about dynamic
- data structures (linked-lists, trees etc), recursion etc. Having already
- programmed in other BASICs, ACE will seem more familiar to you than C. It
- might help you ease into something like C when you get to Uni.
-
- Rgds,
-
- DB
-
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