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Lee from SourceForge sent a request to the Euphoria community on September 1, 2009. The official time frame is "whenever" but we should act quickly instead of slowly. A response by September 4, 2009 would be nice.

Lee's request:

Give us the 10,000-foot overview of Euphoria.

Euphoria started its life in 1993 as a commercial programming language developed by Robert Craig of Rapid Deployment Software. With the 3.0.0 release in October of 2006, Euphoria started its second life as open source software and is now maintained by a group of developers with the help and input of its users. Euphoria is on the verge of its largest update ever, 4.0.

Who ought to consider using it?

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What is it good for?

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What makes it special?

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Why did you make it open source?

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How did doing so affect its development?

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What's new in recent releases?

The upcoming 4.0 release (currently in beta) has many new features: additional supported platforms (OSX, OpenSolaris), new flow control structures, improved variable scoping, default arguments, built-in regular expressions and cross platform socket support, routine inlining, improved and expanded standard library, user defined preprocessors and namespace and scoping enhancements.

Is there any especially useful capability users might overlook?

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What's a cool tip for people who use the software?

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What's coming up in future versions?

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How frequently do you make releases?

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What do you need help with?

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And what's the best way for people who want to help to get in touch?

Join the OpenEuphoria web forum: http://openeuphoria.org/forum/index.wc

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