OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria's Future?

• Posted by rforno at tutopia.com Nov 13, 2001
• 566 views

I agree on the comments for the manual. It is a very good piece of work.
But what is really meant by a "shiny box"? Maybe my English is not enough to
understand this idiomatic expression :).
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Subject: Re: Euphoria's Future?


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> At 09:10 13/11/01 +0100, you wrote:
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> >It needs a shiny box and a good manual.
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> I disagree on one point.  Euphoria doesn't need a good manual because it
> already comes with one far far better than "good" - "excellently superb"
is
> a better description.  The documentation (i.e. "manual") that is supplied
> with Euphoria is the best example of clearly written, easy to understand
> and (thanks to the hot link ability of HTML) the easiest to navigate I
have
> ever come across in twenty years of reading such material.  I believe this
> is one of the reasons why so many people have taken the time (at no cost)
> to translate the documentation to other languages.
>
> High quality documentation for any product is essential for it's success
> but a shiny box to put it in is, IMHO, not 
>
> Keep up the good work all.
>
> Regards,
>
> FP.
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