Re: Ada Successor Language

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:03:59 -0700 (PDT), Lucretia
<laguest9000@googlemail.com> declaimed the following:

>
>If BG had anytrhing to do with it, then QuickBASIC would've been too unstable to do anything with. I used AmigaBASIC bitd and it crashed a lot, that was written by BG apparently.
>
	It was still better than the MetaComCo ABC (or ABasiC or some such)
that came with first generation AmigaOS.

	Once ARexx was released, it became my goto for quick&dirty programs
(especially with the add-on library that gave support for standard
requesters and dialogs). Then came Irmen's port of Python... and within a
week I'd written an out-going mail daemon that WORKED for my needs. At that
time, mail clients were ports from UNIX (AmigaELM?) and worked with local
mailbox files that had to be populated by a separate POP client program,
and relied upon external scripts to spool outgoing mail for SMTP program to
send... Well, the first such SMTP I tried would attempt direct connection
to each addressee (not even checking MX records for routing, obviously this
was before the practice of having to relay via one's ISP started) -- and
would block the entire pending queue if one message could not be sent. The
second program I tried did use ISP relay mode, but it did not parse CC and
BCC headers so only addresses found in the TO header would receive the
mail. My Python daemon correctly extracted TO, CC, and BCC (and then
removed BCC from the message itself) and relayed to the ISP (I used a short
ARexx script for the mail client submission/queue handler).


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