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- From: ortmann@plains.nodak.edu (Daniel Ortmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Are Amiga users steadily becoming Amiga Programmers?
- Date: 6 Apr 1996 21:26:51 -0600
- Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network (NDHECN)
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- In article <4josqd$efq@news.internetmci.com>,
- Dave Gentry <dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com> wrote:
- >Is it me, or does it seem like more and more Amiga users are asking
- >for the ROM Kernel Manuals, OS3.1 NDK, example code, SAS C development
- >environment, etc? With the pullout of most of the commercial
- :
-
- The Amiga has always been a magnet for people who want to grow. I do not
- personally know of *any* Amiga owner that has not rather quickly been
- pulled into programming.
-
- Speaking for myself, I did not *know* how deeply I was diving into the
- system. I studied the ROM Kernel Manuals and header files for *months*,
- and thought to myself "Gee, I must be stupid or somthing...this stuff
- seems really tough!" It was only a few years later while going back to
- school to get my graduate degree in EE that I found out value of that
- total immersion; in my 68k assembly class I routinely wrote 200+ code
- that assembled, and passed all tests on the FIRST try!
-
- I know that this is a common experience among Amiga amigos. There is
- too much good code out there to explain it any other way. :-)
- --
- Daniel
-