But what incentive did WB's after 1.3 (i.e. without Amiga Basic) give you to start progging? For most people a computer is a tool to send an email to uncle Bob, type a letter, muck about with digital photos or surf the web. The people who *are* interested in programming will get a proper development suite anyway so what would the added value be of a compiler?
I think you are viewing a computer more as a hobby object than most people, for the vast majority it's just a device like a fridge or a VCR. The computer has matured into a device which is (well...in a weird twisted way..) usable to Joe Public. Unlike the stuff of the eighties with it's cryptic shell interfaces (However this is debatable, I've seen a documentary on some computer scientist-type of guy who was of the opinion that a CLI-based, single tasking environment is much more userfriendly than the GUI-based systems of today. And there could be some truth in that).
