Re: Phix 1.0.2 uploaded
- Posted by katsmeow Apr 03, 2023
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My 2c on the shrinking userbase..
Rob's original mantra of keeping it simple and NOT having to learn C / C plus plus , memory models, heaps, pointers was what got me hooked.
Thank you — I had thought I was the only one left who felt like that.
<coff> I think, therefor i can look in the mirror and see that i still am.
Your mentioning of GUI being a must made me remember Judith Evans’s IDE, and when I tried to look up what has become of it, it made me sad to read that she has died 8 years ago. This is a tragic loss, but also, something like her IDE, for Phix, would be a great help. Can we ever hope for it?
Under the heading of KISS, i nominate Jiri Babor, also died. His site is gone, but available in some ways on archive.org. Back in the day, he showed us all we did not need mySQL or "maps", because we had sequences. And because we have sequences, we could have rampantly multi-linked lists AND "string tokens" (akin to atoms, but longer).
Kat
