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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!nic.umass.edu!dime!barrett
  2. From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Amiga User Manuals (was Re: Commodity question)
  5. Message-ID: <58295@dime.cs.umass.edu>
  6. Date: 5 Jan 93 20:25:25 GMT
  7. References: <Gerard_Ng.0p9a@a68k.denver.CO.US> <1993Jan2.085409.22121@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Jan5.173418.6494@nynexst.com>
  8. Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu
  9. Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
  10. Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED
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  13. In article <1993Jan5.173418.6494@nynexst.com> clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu) writes:
  14. >  What do people think of the ARexx section of the WB 2.0+ manual set?
  15. >  I thought it was pretty horrible.  And I'm an experienced C, C++,
  16. >  FORTRAN programmer.
  17.  
  18.     That's what happens when a computer language manual is written like
  19. a reference manual.  You can't learn a language when the syntax is presented
  20. to you in alphabetical order.
  21.  
  22. >The book by Zamara "Using ARexx on the Amiga" was a lot more informative and
  23. >instructive, in my opinion.
  24.  
  25.     Yes, that's a good book:  it groups the commands very conveniently
  26. by category and makes a great reference.  The index is horrible, though.
  27. The individual functions aren't indexed -- instead, they're all under
  28. "Function."  And it gets worse from there.
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  30.                                                         Dan
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  33. | Dan Barrett -- Dept of Computer Science, Lederle Graduate Research Center |
  34. | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA  01003  --  barrett@cs.umass.edu |
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