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- > >Stefano Agostinelli (agos001@pn.itnet.it) wrote:
- > >>
- > >> - release a good C development system with every new machine
- > >>
- > Kamil Iskra <iskra@student.uci.agh.edu.pl> wrote:
- > >
- > >???!!! With _EVERY_ new machine?! What for?! To increase costs? Wake up -
- > >not everybody is fond of programming in general and in C in particular (to
- > >make it clear: I _AM_ fond of programming in C).
- > >
- On 23 Jan 1996, Fred Fish wrote:
- >
- > Certainly only a small fraction of the user base will want or need
- > development tools. But that small fraction is more important to the
- > success of the machine than 10 times that number of nondeveloper
- > consumers. (just my opinion of course :-)
-
- I absolutely agree. If there were a cheap way of doing it, the
- Amiga could retain and strengthen one of it's most valuable assets-
- programers. I don't think teen age kids buy a computer wanting to
- program, but eventually, if the system is there, they will play around
- with it. Some of these tinkerers will become good programmers, something
- a computer ALWAYS needs. If the only way of getting into development
- costs hundreds of dollars, we will lose most of these young creative minds.
-
- Later
-
- Morgan MacArthur
-
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