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[David McFarlane]

Tobias,

> By the way: Apparently you are still using E-Prime 1. Is there a
> particular reason for that?

Glad you asked.  Actually, I do work with both EP1 and EP2.  But I 
reserve EP2 for just those times when it is required (e.g., playing 
movies, or for labs that have only EP2), and otherwise stick to EP1 for 
a few reasons.  First, everything in EP1 has continued to work under 
Vista, whereas some features in EP2 did not (e.g., sound).  Second, EP1 
is more lightweight and snappy than EP2 -- e.g., when I hit F7 my 
program just runs, none of this "please wait while E-Prime initializes" 
nonsense every time I save, generate, or run a file.  Third, and most 
germane to this context, EP1 is far superior for exploring how E-Basic 
works -- I can type complete tiny three-line programs into E-Run and run 
those instantly to see how any E-Basic statement actually works, no need 
to employ all the baggage of E-Studio and enter Subject, Session, etc. 
each time just to see how one line of code works.  I have learned more 
about E-Basic through E-Run than by any other means, and I pity the rest 
of you who have been deprived of that by PST with EP2.  Finally, I 
purposely choose the lowest common denominator for my little demo 
programs.  If I wrote those in EP2 then only users with EP2 could 
benefit from them, but if I write in EP1 then everyone can benefit 
(until PST also takes that away, just as Microsoft now disables Office 
from reading their own earlier file formats).  Just trying to be a good 
E-Prime citizen.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder

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