1. So-called Poor, Ideas website
[So-call poor]
First of all, poor old kids dont really have an ISP, nor the time (you could
work!) nor the pc & hw-equipment to be on the Euphoria Mailing List. I think
its rather that he isnt allowed to register, or has problems 'borrowing'
visa-cards from his/her parents. Problems that I had for a long time. (and
lack of motivation to find a solution though.. lazyness thus) .. I
registered about a week ago. Robert, for you information, the price is the
*last* thing that keeps people from registering. Methods, the fact that Its
to/from another country, draws certain barriers. If it would be laying
around in the shops, I would have purchased it a long time ago. However,
dont get me wrong. An example, for a kid of around 12 Euphoria really is an
investment, that is, its a pretty big amount of money. And if there were any
heavy limits (on program size, for example), this would be harsh. But there
arent. He has little reason to not be satiesfied with the public domain
version.
[Ideas Website]
Sounds like a good idea. If you offer a sort of guestbook/message board like
interface, it will come in handy.
Ralf
2. Re: So-called Poor, Ideas website
>Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen wrote ...
>Robert, for you information, the price is the
>*last* thing that keeps people from registering. Methods, the fact that Its
>to/from another country, draws certain barriers.
Actually I agree. I'm in the UK and have had no experience of ordering
from the USA ( or anywhere overseas ) and was a little confused by the
ordering instructions ( I'll go and have another read ! ). An on-line
credit card order form on the web site would definately extract money
from my pocket a lot quicker !
I was also holding off registering knowing that v2.1 was on the horizon;
I also found the details of what I would be registering for a little
confusing - 2.0, 2.1 ?
Everyone wants something for free; Euphoria in this respect sets a fine
balance. I've used it for simple stuff where the 300 lines of code,
debug limit isn't a problem and used it on much bigger fish where it has
caused problems. It's my choice, struggle on or pay a small(ish) amount
to overcome that problem.
Once one gets into large scale coding, where Euphoria is better than any
other language; registration shows itself to be very good value for
money. Just look at the cost of the latest [ non-learning editions ]
Visual Basic releases 
Having used it for free for a while ( without any language crippling ),
I am able to make a judgement on whether or not registering gives me
value for money; an excellent way of 'selling' the product I feel.
