Never depend on computers. This issue is late for a combination of reasons, mostly because of a HD crash that forced me to start over with an already tight schedule. Never depend on your site adminstration's backup schedules either, do your backups independently. Failures always happen at the worst possible moment.

To make up for the long delay, in this issue we a have a lot of interesting stuff. An article revealing some of the secrets behind the often-heard-of but little known development tools flex and bison (or lex and yacc), a new column about C programming, the first part of an AmigaE course, an ARexx tutorial, and more Installer tips and BOOPSI magic.

While Amiga Technologies still keeps us waiting for anything tangible, be it in the way of hardware or even concrete information about the future, the independent developer scene is still going strong. Every once in a while I'm about to lose the hope of Amiga surviving, but usually it doesn't take more than a quick look on Aminet to see that the platform is very much alive. A big thanks and good luck to all the people who are keeping it that way. Many exciting new programs have appeared since the last issue, some of them mentioned in the pointers section. I'm sorry I can't list them all, but that alone would be almost a full-time job ;)

Yours,

Osma Ahvenlampi, editor of Amiga Report Technical Journal.