Re: switch design
- Posted by Critic Sep 11, 2009
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When there are things that we discuss of major language design changes/additions, we do bring it up on the forum.
I am fine with this solution. It's just that I have never seen it happen. Never mind.
BTW... I am curious. You want to be part of deciding what Euphoria is and becomes? The language stinks and shouldn't even exist according to you. It's a total failure on any count and for the sake of man kind should be destroyed, including any mention of it... At least, that's the impression I get of how you feel towards it.
I for myself think that there are way too many crappy programming languages. So, yes the world would be a better place without TCL, PHP, Perl, Objective C and Euphoria (just a few examples; the list of sucking programming languages is long...). However, I am a realist. (Who is laughing here? 
) It won't happen. One reason is that it is too costly to switch the implementation language of existing software. So the second best thing is to try to improve the languages until they do not suck that much anymore. Getting rid of implicit fallthrough in switch statements is a TINY step to achieve this goal.
I will never ever choose to use Euphoria. But my job is programming. I often work with several scripts written in different, but similar scripting languages. Maybe I (or someone I care about) will get in touch with and have to maintain some Eu code? It's not likely, but then Perl's success was not likely either given how much crap Perl is.
Of course, I already told you the other (real) reasons why I keep posting here.
