Re: Pocket PC, Sucess anyone?

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Jeremy Peterson wrote:

> Well I don't like to brag but... smile
> I'm a fairly good C programmer but there are a lot of Elite C programmers out
> in the open source world.  Why don't you go to one of those Gnu forums and put
> the word out that you're looking for someone for this job.

Heh, I doubt anyone other than a Euphorian would be interested in the C source
code offer. I really dont want to make a big deal out of this if nobody is
interested. I'm not at a total loss though, since I'm learning ISE Eiffel, which
has so much that I'm not going to mention here.

> Actually, I was thinking of re-implementing Eu completely in D.  It is as fast
> as C, much easier to program in, and would be easier to use to implement stuff
> like OOP, threads, and wrapping dlls.  The downside of this is that I'd have
> to start from scratch, but it would solve any licensing problems with Rob's
> source code.  On the other hand, looking at the OpenEu, Peu, Bach, Posetf
> projects,
> I get the feeling that not many people would use this if implemented.  It
> would
> be slower with added features, and some people think this is a serious
> problem,
> though with today's computers it is less so.  
> Too, I wouldn't want to take away Rob's bread and butter.  I'm rather confused
> by him.  He seems to want Eu to remain simple, like a beginner's language or
> something.  Why doesn't he implement an Expert version of Eu with these
> features???
> RDS is a very confusing company.

Derek Parnell is making an Euphoria clone in D, he plans on using it for his
personal needs, but if he releases it to the general public, it will likely fail
just like all the other imitations. He and Georg Wrede hang around in the Digital
Mars D programming forum.

There is no way D could be as fast as highly optimized C. D is loaded with
features, including garbage collection (which slows things down a little).
I suppose D looks superior to C and C++, but looks more like feces against
Euphoria in most cases.

> You could always hire RDS to do this, they have that page on the web site that
> says they will take programming jobs at cheap rates. smile  No... I don't think
> Rob would go for that.

I couldn't afford to hire RDS. For example, they wanted $300 USD to add INSERT
functionality into my specific copy of the Public Domain source code! Judging by
what Rob said about the price of adding a "goto" label construct to the language,
I'm guessing it could cost me upwards of a million dollars for what I want. LOL
:P

> Later,
> Jeremy Peterson

Cheers,
Vincent

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