OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria's Future?

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Nov 13, 2001
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On 13 Nov 2001, at 22:20, rforno at tutopia.com wrote:

> 
> 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"? 

It's almost just what it says: a shiney box! Shrink wrapped, fancy colors, like 
boxes that microsoft sells OSs in. The box is part of the advertising for the 
product.

Kat


> Maybe my English is not enough to
> understand this idiomatic expression :). ----- Original Message ----- From:
> <freeplay at mailandnews.com> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> Sent:
> Tuesday,
> November 13, 2001 6:37 PM Subject: Re: Euphoria's Future?
> 
> 
> > At 09:10 13/11/01 +0100, you wrote:
> > <snip>
> > >It needs a shiny box and a good manual.
> > <snip>
> >                             xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > 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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