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    04-Apr-86 18:37:25
Sb: #13573-#Languages
Fm: Jan Harrington 72277,3417
To: Ben C. Pyle 70055,221

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The Amiga routines are written with a C interface, which makes then easiest to use from C. They are also accessable from assembly langauge with just a bit more effort. At this time, the current release of Amiga Pascal does not have the ability to call external routines, so until the upgrade is widely distributed, Pascal is rather limited. My own preference is for assembly language, simply because it gives you better control over the system. Other people will rave about C, because it's flexible and they feel high-level languages are easier to work with than assembly. If you choose to learn assembly, check out my column on assembly language programming that we being in May in Amiga Project magazine. At this time, there are no books out that are specifically devoted to Amiga assembly language. jan