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BASIC for Amiga

    15-Aug-90 21:29:32
Sb: #116832-BASIC for Amiga
Fm: Steven D. Kapplin 70055,1021
To: John Bianchi 76256,3436
John, I saw the ad, which wasn't very informative. I would call MAST to ask about it, but the last three times I've called them for information I wasted a long distance phone call. Not only were they not helpful, but they never mailed information they promised to send, wouldn't return phone calls, so I had to call several times before I could talk to someone with some knowledge relevant to my questions. In all, I wan wasn't very impressed, so I'm hesitant to waste time or money on them. They didn't seem real anxious for a customer, so I'm leery of dealing with them. I've used CanDo (I have the latest version) and I like it very much. It's major drawbacks at this time include lack of floating point math support, poor printer support, and lack of full programming support equivalent, say, to Basic. However, Inovatronics has acknowledged these needed things and has indicated that they will probably come along in the form of add on modules in future releases. I've used Inovatronics Power Windows and Inovatools and they are excellent products, so I have every confidence that they can deliver a really superb application generator in CanDo. But like every other software product, what we can expect is partly a function of how successful CanDo is as a product. If it's pretty successful, then Inovatronics will have the capital to invest in further development and improvement. If not, well . . . . Steve