CompuServe Messages

Brian, Humph! A strike you say? I hope it doesn't take that, although I'm not sure even that would help matters. Seems like the power hitters sneer at basic, so they don't even consider us poor basic hackers. I will say that dissidents at least provided .bmaps for their libraries, other than the ARexx ones. Oh well, I guess that's a reality we will have to live with, especially now that CBM won't, apparently, be supporting basic, unless that rumor proves false. I don't mind ARexx, though. It's about as friendly as basic for the quick hack, tho it isn't set up for basic type programming. The libraries like rexxarplib and rx_intui provide intuition for ARexx, which is more than you can find in basic, and there's a new company out there starting to market a true native code ARexx compiler. I put in an order for one a couple of weeks ago and am supposed to get the beta version until the real version comes out in a couple of months. The author says that it really speeds up ARexx programs except for large compound stems and produces true native code. I'm looking forward to seeing how it works.