1. Honest criticism
There are several things about Euphoria that continue to be,
in David Cuny's words "stumbling blocks". Over the past couple
of years, there have been many threads on these subjects, with
numerous possible solutions.
It would seem to me that the time to make these changes would
be now, while the impact would be minimal. Let's face it, there
are approximately zero commercial applications written in
Euphoria right now. Dave and Jiri and a couple of others would
have to change some of the code in their excellent libraries.
I believe they would be willing to do so, if they could take
advantage of the improvements.
Backward compatibility is mostly an illusion in any language,
and as long as there is a free public domain version
available, it's not important to most people.
If you feel badly about "breaking" people's code,
remember that the people writing the code are the
same ones making the suggestions for change!
Regards,
Irv
2. Re: Honest criticism
well sed.
I'm inclined to agree w/ David.
-Flash->
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> From: Irv Mullins[SMTP:irv at ELLIJAY.COM]
> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 1998 7:31 AM
> To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Honest criticism
>
> There are several things about Euphoria that continue to be,
> in David Cuny's words "stumbling blocks". Over the past couple
> of years, there have been many threads on these subjects, with
> numerous possible solutions.
>
> It would seem to me that the time to make these changes would
> be now, while the impact would be minimal. Let's face it, there
> are approximately zero commercial applications written in
> Euphoria right now. Dave and Jiri and a couple of others would
> have to change some of the code in their excellent libraries.
> I believe they would be willing to do so, if they could take
> advantage of the improvements.
>
> Backward compatibility is mostly an illusion in any language,
> and as long as there is a free public domain version
> available, it's not important to most people.
> If you feel badly about "breaking" people's code,
> remember that the people writing the code are the
> same ones making the suggestions for change!
>
> Regards,
> Irv
>
