Re: Rob, please make EU uncrippled...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernie Ryan
> What "registration incentives" will the compiler have ?
One thing it will do is make Eu more flexible and useful. Now we can create
DLL's (for instance) to use with other languages! I think we all agree that
there are certain tasks which Eu is great for, and now we can take advantage
of this all over the place. I think that the compiler is a good step for
Eu, because now it can be used within projects that are based in other
languages.
> Will it just
> give us the same Euphoria features as the interpeter.
> I don't see any advantage a compiler will bring if the core langauge
> is not improved. Speed is not an issue because the compiler will only
> knock down the loading time and probably not increase the runtime any
> large amount. With the compiler you lose interactive debuging. Also
> you will have to support 6 versions of Euphoria and this
> will restrict the core langauge growth even more.
It may, but based on a couple of years of using Eu and observing its growth,
I don't think that the reason Rob hasn't grown the language a lot more is
because it's too big a task. It seems pretty clear that either Rob doesn't
want to do certain things, or he can't decide on what to do. Once his mind
is made up, things seem to move along pretty quickly.
Besides, he's found another revenue stream, and if that won't motivate him,
I don't know what would. ;)
Matt Lewis
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