1. Food For Thought
- Posted by president at insight-concepts.com Jul 02, 2001
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Hi All, First: I would like to say thank you to all those who requested= to Beta Test Extreme10, and you should receive your copy by the end= of the day. Second: Yesterday a very disgruntle Euphorian E-mailed me, and he= made it clear he thought I was misleading the community by= implying that Euphoria does not need improvement. I never implied Euphoria= does not need improvement, but I do disagree with the recent= request for changes by some of our fellow members. I thought the purpose of Euphoria was to get away from the constraints of Basic, and give novices the opportunity to learn a= powerful language in half the time as other languages. Aren't we= defeating our purpose if we start comparing Euphoria to major languages like Basic or C/C++? No offence but who cares about= "goto"? If goto is so important, go to the language that supports it.= There is an opportunity for all of us here to take part in creating something "NEW" and not just create a hybrid of 2 or three other= languages. Of course Euphoria can be improved, but in my opinion we have= only scratched the surface of what Euphoria can do. So lets say Robert= does comply with all the change requests, what then? Euphoria= will not miraculously replace Basic or any other language. It is going= to take much more than a few simple changes. Quick Story: A very broke music composer with a lot of talent decides he wants= to make records. He knows he does not have the money to afford a= $100 dollars an hour for a Recording Studio, so he buys a used= computer and a Keyboard Synthesizer. He sets his homemade studio up, and begins to write music. He began to compose some great pieces with= $550.00 worth of equipment. When he thought he was good enough,= he went to a major record label with his music, hoping to get a production contract. When the music executive heard his music, he= signed him on the spot. While the executive and the composer were= talking, the executive asked him how much money did he spend= creating such masterpieces, the composer laughed and said $550.00. Of= course the executive could not believe this. The executive asked the composer how could he create such great music with $550.00? The composer answered: " I made the best with what I had, and true talent does not come= from expensive studios, but from inside". No matter if Euphoria had all the things we wanted, we would= still have to write the programs. Euphoria is just the tool, but you= guys are the talent. Food for thought. Christopher Bouzy President/CEO
2. Food For Thought
- Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Jul 06, 1998
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- Last edited Jul 07, 1998
OK, not *strictly* on the topic of Euphoria, but here are some paper's I've run across that might resonate. You might want to check out Worse Is Better, at: http://laputa.isdn.uiuc.edu/worse-is-better.html (You might just want to skip the LISP stuff and search for "worse is better"). More recent is the discussion on the Big Ball of Mud, at: http://laputa.isdn.uiuc.edu/mud/mud.html Both of these discuss why software may often appear to be suboptimal, and why this may not be such a bad thing after all. Finally, a discussion on "open software" is The Cathedral and the Bazaar at: http://www.kde.org/food/cathedral/cathedral-paper.html -- David Cuny