1. Re: Applications in Euphoria
I think you are right on, David.
Not so many years ago I was quite impressed with the Spinnaker Eight-In-One
program and some other related programs like typing tutor. The various
applications obviously used much of the same user interface code. The
individual programs of the integrated applications were sold separately.
Now granted these programs may have been written in "C", but they ran
satisfactorily on 16Mhz, 16 bit computers.
So, it seems to me that credible applications could be developed with
Euphoria on 32 bit machines running at 5 - 10 times the clock speed, - my
current AMD 5x86-133 runs some of the Euphoria bench marks 24 times faster
than my old 386DX-25 with a math co-processor!
I'm not so sure about the viability of volunteer "team" programming over
the net in a literal sense, but it seems to be happening indirectly as some
of you guys post programs and code snippets on web pages and this list.
Steal from the best is my motto. And now we have a newsgroup.
In my little town a fellow sells refurbished 386DX-16's with Color Monitor
for less than $300.00 (zenith). I don't really see too much software
available for these machines. I've been meaning to give the PD version of
Euphoria to this man to bundle with his pre-owned computers. I was
thinking that it would be nice to have a freeware integrated application
replete with source code to better illustrate the functionality of the
language. Consider that together with the prospect of a virtually free
OpenDOS and school kids could have viable business machines for pocket
change.
But the most exciting prospect to me is the exposure of young people to
programming. You may never see me post code because I am not in the same
league - but it is quite a charge when I see some little fuction I can
throw up - I guess its like solving a puzzle. I think that programming
"teaches" problem solving skills. I guess my age is showing. They used to
bundle languages with computers. It made some people very rich! There is
a lot to be said for exposure.
-Ken Rhodes
