UNIX/AmigaOS article in A/C Tech -- yech
Dan Barrett
barrett at jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU
Mon Apr 15 05:53:38 AEST 1991
Have you read the article "UNIX and the Amiga: An Introduction to
UNIX, for the Amiga Programmer, Part I" in Amazing Computing's Tech magazine,
issue #2?
IMHO, this article is terrible. It is riddled with errors and
misconceptions about UNIX. (One example: "Ed, an ... editor, is found for
the Amiga and UNIX. Both AmigaDOS and UNIX also have the EDIT line editor
commands....") Also, this is a tech magazine, and the article was almost
completely devoid of technical content. It read like a syntax description
for 80% of its text. ("The Amiga ECHO has this syntax. The UNIX syntax
is different....") All in all, a very poor "Introduction for the Amiga
Programmer."
If I were to make a guess, I'd say that the author (Mike Hubbartt)
has used UNIX lightly for 1 year or less. Who is he? Does he have an e-mail
address? I'd like to send him some constructive comments. (No, the above
flames are not "constructive comments." :-))
Dan
DISCLAIMER: They say that you aren't supposed to criticize something
unless you could do a better job yourself. I feel justified
because my job includes teaching UNIX programming to novices.
Maybe I'll write an article for AmigaWorld Tech Journal.
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