1. Re: Euphoria Application (was Contest Idea)
- Posted by Kat <kat at kogeijin.com> Nov 06, 2002
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On 6 Nov 2002, at 9:20, irv at take.maxleft.com wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 November 2002 08:37 am, Derek wrote: > > > I think that Euphoria has the potential developing commercial quality > > applications but the acceptance of such applications depends to some extent > > on > > the end users perspective of the underlying language; it is much easier to > > sell a system written in C++; fifteen or so years ago I lost a contract to > > develop a system when the owner of the client company found out that I would > > be programming in C, he had heard that systems written in C ran even slower > > than those written in Basic. > > You're better off to have lost the contract. You were dealing with a fool. > > Whoever won the contract probably had to deal with him for a -long- time. Problem is, Eu is percieved badly now for professional internet applications. Every nite, i haveto look people in the eye (figuratively speaking) who whip up code for their internet boxes in Perl, Python, PHP, C, C++, etc , and i can't get anything in Eu to run on a *nix box at all! Now, once again, i curse my decision on software languages, because i can't present a good internet image to a prospective customer, even if he is non-profit. I didn't dare mention Euphoria after he said "linux" and "Perl" while we were talking. Getting the "job" would have been a plume in my resume-to-be. While i can run the backend on Eu on a winbox (and windows will my PITA), the internet world will likely see a Perl program running on a *nix box, not a radical earthshaking 100% Eu program. They won't even see the Eu. For several years, i have not been able to get someone to install exu on a server, and now that i have, i haveto get/pay a perl programmer to write the remote proxy part of the application and delete the exu, or tell the dot-com i cannot provide services to him,, all because i cannot get more than 10kBITS/s bandwidth here (for under $1200/month). So when you are comparing Eu to Perl or Python, etc, doesn't mean it can be used for anything "professional" internet. Kat