Re: Raspberry Pi revisited
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Nov 15, 2012
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I am also aware that your accolades to IRA are PERSONAL, but I share with you the appreciation of work done by IRA.
Glad to see it.
Personally, I feel that the excellent work of that other person (Ira) is at best only tenuously connected to your posts. This latest one has no connection to Euphoria programming.
I am glad you used the word PERSONALLY above.
I was trying to make clear that I was just speaking about my own thoughts, and not (for example) speaking out as a moderator, administrator, or a represenative of the dev team.
If you insist on antagonizing people, Euphoria will suffer, and you PERSONALLY will be extinguished
A word of caution here: I'm pretty sure you didn't mean it that way, but that comes very close to sounding like a death threat.
I have no desire to extinguish you.
Glad to hear it.
Anyways, I think you meant that if I go on "antagonizing people" then it'll turn other users away from Euphoria, which (since you seem to be assuming I don't do anything besides Euphoria stuff) makes me increasingly irrelevant, XFree86-style.
I feel sufficiently confident in my accomplishments, both inside and outside Euphoria, that I have no worries about myself in a personal sense. I also feel that this community, which has a long tradition of energetic debates, is unlikely to be affected (in terms of shrinking a lot, or growing significantly) by a relatively minor posting about Pi. So, overall, I'm not that worried.
Also, I contend that I am not antagonizing people.
In fact, I have made it clear that:
I am very aware of petty likes and jealousies and established people feeling threatened on small forums;
I am very aware of petty support for each other within the establishment on small forums;
I recommend then that you use your awareness to be more productive on this forum, instead of getting yourself into situations where you have to write a significant amount of text to defend yourself.
I am a very experienced developer and programmer, but NOT very active, nor wanting to be active now, except in my own personal sphere of influence, viz. my interest in bringing up my grand children in the development world (don't worry, they will not be ready to displace you or anybody for another 8 years);
I do not wish to take anybody's place in Euphoria development or any other work associated with it;
This impresses me not at all.
At the same time, I have interest in Euphoria, because it is one of the few languages I have used, which has versatility, reliability, ease of use and usefulness in a low level language. Its minor weakness is lack of full development of a universally usable GUI and IDE, which I am aware are under constant scrutiny by Matt Lewis and ghaberek. I am 100% sure that these minor weakness will be rectified in the very near future.
I disagree with you only in that I don't consider Euphoria a low level language (though it certainly interfaces well with several low level languages). I agree completely with the rest of what you said.
So if you don't want to see Euphoria on a million or more $40 computers in the near future, keep on bugging and attacking me. It won't hurt me, but it WILL hurt you most.
I guess I can have my cake and eat it too?
I'm very interested in seeing your plan on getting Euphoria on a million or more $0 computers. What are the steps you will take to accomplish this? What sort of timeline do you have? (Near feature is quite vague.) If applicable (I concede that it may not be), what kind of budget will this plan require?
