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Wow blast from the past :D I must say, I'm thoroughly impressed that the Amiga community sticks with and improves the standards that were already set in the ea
by flohofwoe 3y ago
Wow blast from the past :D
I must say, I'm thoroughly impressed that the Amiga community sticks with and improves the standards that were already set in the early 1990's (AmigaGuide, the Lisp-y installer scripts, LHA, and probably also things that are not mentioned in the article, like AREXX and datatypes) instead of reinventing the same wheel over and over.
- mark_round 3y agoThere is a fantastic article which I've linked to before that goes into a lot of that: https://datagubbe.se/ltmag/ https://datagubbe.se/ltmag/ Datatypes in particular are amazing! I really wish some of these features (see also: ASSIGNs) made it over to other platforms. Which makes me think... A really nice hack (after I finally port SetCmd back to 68k and then bring it to more platforms) would be to add an ARexx port. Rexx itself is a pretty decent scripting language and the ubiquity of it on later-day Amiga systems meant that glue-ing components together and automating big chunks of platform behavior was very simple. Off down the rabbit hole again ;)
- vidarh 3y agoI detest Rexx, but love having the Arexx port, but more Linux software and the like than people think have Dbus ports. If only dbus just wasn't so overengineered (ubus is an alternative)... Also have a long list of projects to make my Linux desktop more Amiga-like again...