I was interested to read Mike Howard's comments on your magazine (issue 107). In particular, I was taken by his comments on the listings.

I'm not a regular contributor but I've had about four games published in your hallowed pages and his comments dug a little deep. Obviously he intended to criticise the games and not the various utilities and he suggests more mathematical content to make them more like programming instructors than functional listings.

I'm sure that many others like me would rather type in a game that does what it should than a listing which does nothing but prints semi-circles.

We are in totally separate areas of computing - he is clearly the computer boffin (no insult intended) and I'm the casual user. I hope Mike Howard's comments won't cause you to go completely boffinised. Don't make computers a dull hobby and don't make PCN a dull magazine.

Andrew Clarke, Baddesley Ensor, Warwickshire

PCN, dull? No chance - Ed