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Re: FLAMES and SUPPORT IN THE MINUS REALM

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From: Dan Scott
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 23:55
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in article <24958@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com says:
> 
> Just one question in this discussion...
>  
> If Atari has such a low opinion of the "end users" who buy their machines,
> and can assume that 90% of them only want to run programs, not write them,
> why has Atari traditionally supplied a   *programming language*   with the
> computers..?
>  
> In fact, my ST came with  *two*  programming languages...


You call LOGO and ST BASIC *REAL* programming languages?

Dan
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From: danscott@atari.UUCP (Dan Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FLAMES and SUPPORT IN THE MINUS REALM
Message-ID: <1901@atari.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 89 23:55:38 GMT
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Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA.
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