OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria's Future?

• Posted by jstory at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Nov 12, 2001
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 jcowgar at bhsys.com wrote:

> What is the general feeling about Euphoria's 
> future?

  I'm gonna stick my head out for it to get chopped off.
I still hold to the old-fashioned weird theory that the superior product
wins, even tho it seems everyone disagrees.  By "superior" I mean superior
in a given context; between two products, each can be superior to the
other in its own context and each will win over the other in its own
segment of the market.

  Between Euphoria and C++/C#:

  Euphoria will win over C++/C# where simplicity is more important than
efficiency.

  C++ and C# will win over Euphoria where efficiency is more important
than simplicity.
( Unless the E2C translator .... )

  As computers get more powerful, efficiency of programming languages gets
less important.  ( e.g.  the trend from compilers to interpreters )
This means that the advantage in speed that C++/C# has over Euphoria
will become less important as computers get faster.

  As the computer world gets more complicated, simplicity of programming
languages gets more important.

  From the above facts, I predict that Euphoria will become a
popular language.  ( sticking my neck out for it to get chopped off )

  On the other hand, the history of computers and programming suggests
that the future is hard to predict.  How many people predicted linux?
the internet explosion?  the rapid increase of computer power?
the domination of Microsoft?  the rise of Netscape?  the fall of
Netscape?  Bill Gates made a laughing stock out of himself by predicting
that nobody will ever need more than 640K of RAM.

       Jerry Story