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ARexx tutorial

    29-Aug-89 13:28:55
Sb: #63619-ARexx tutorial
Fm: Ethan Solomita 70137,3271
To: Bill Hawes 72230,267
Bill, I think that some small changes to the docs, if you could find time for it, would make a big difference. In the first few chapters, when you talk about the structure of the language, you should move all references to the way your program actually WORKS to a later chapter entitled "Technical Reference". Just leave basic information, like "a variable, lets say "myvar", will be equal to itself capitalized until it is assigned a variable". Each program has its own variable list. When you start talking about memory allocation for variable pools, most people, including myself, find themselves reading the text again and again. — Ethan P.S. This is in no way a knock of your product. In fact, it has one other feature over iconx for WorkBench users: it doesn't require that a window pop up on the screen!