Re: For those wanting Orca-compatible Gno programs.

[dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

[Note: followups directed to csa2.programmer]

In article <2gvtp5$g0u@r-node.io.org> taob@io.org (Brian Tao) writes:
> In article <2gettm$drb@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca>, G. Devin Reade writes...
> > 
> > Remember:  The more time a developer spends making something
> > Orca-compatible, the less time he is spending developing something else.

... and the less people will be able to use the program.

ORCA is the standard programming environment for the IIgs (and has
been since day one).  Programming utilities should be ORCA compatible
if at all possible.

General utilities are arguable, but I still think they should be ORCA
compatible unless they require some feature of GNO to be feasible.

[In case you haven't guessed already, I don't have GNO.  When I
eventually get it, I might change my tune.  I will not be pleased if I
am forced to buy it prematurely, just so that I can use some program
which the author has decided not to bother making ORCA compatible.]

> I go through the "edit source code, compile source code, run source
> code" cycle very often.  If I use a long command line, ORCA forces me
> to retype it each time.  In GNO, I just hit the up arrow a couple of
> times and then Return.

Que?  I do this all the time in ORCA.  Which version of ORCA are you
talking about, anyway?  I'm using ORCA/Shell 2.0.2, I think (2.0.0 was
able to support long command lines, but I haven't used 1.x for so long
that I can't remember it too well).

>     Ditto here.  :)  Do you see comp.sys.apple2.orca?  Nope.  ;-)

It's on GEnie.  ;-)
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David Empson                                                               
dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
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