OpenEuphoria

Re: Pocket PC, Sucess anyone?

• Posted by C Bouzy <eucoder at hotmail.com> Dec 14, 2005
• 790 views

Vincent wrote:
> 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.
> 


Vincent,

How long have you been using EU? In that statement you are implying that EU
is successful and unfortunately it is not. Not only has the "immitations"
failed, but the "original" language has failed on so many levels.
If anyone was to create a clone of EU and attracted more than 5000 users,
it would be considered more successful than the current EU. Someone could
literally take EU as is and rename it, and if they knew what they were doing,
that “clone” could be more successful than the current version of EU. 
I can name dozens of software products that were EXACT clones/re-branded
versions of another product, and one product did significantly better than
the other. Robert puts very little effort into attracting new users. 
Most of the people who find out about EU stumble across it while looking 
for other programming languages, or by word of mouth. Regrettably Robert
has the “If you build it they will come” syndrome.

EU is currently open source and the amount of users still have not increased
significantly, that alone should tell you that there needs to be changes.
Appearance is EVERYTHING, and when someone stumbles across EU for the first
time, the first thing that comes to mind is outdated. Over the years I have
seen numerous talented programmers leave because of Robert’s inability
and/or unwillingness to listen to the very people who are using the language.
I have been around here long enough to know if EU will ever get out of the
Stone Age it will have to be done outside of RDS. As long as the “protected”
source is not used, it can be done legally with no recourse from RDS.

----If you continue to do what you have always done,
you will get what you have always gotten.----