Re: Euphoria Application (was Contest Idea)
On 6 Nov 2002, at 9:20, irv at take.maxleft.com wrote:
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> On Wednesday 06 November 2002 08:37 am, Derek wrote:
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> > I think that Euphoria has the potential developing commercial quality
> > applications but the acceptance of such applications depends to some extent
> > on
> > the end users perspective of the underlying language; it is much easier to
> > sell a system written in C++; fifteen or so years ago I lost a contract to
> > develop a system when the owner of the client company found out that I would
> > be programming in C, he had heard that systems written in C ran even slower
> > than those written in Basic.
>
> You're better off to have lost the contract. You were dealing with a fool.
>
> Whoever won the contract probably had to deal with him for a -long- time.
Problem is, Eu is percieved badly now for professional internet applications.
Every nite, i haveto look people in the eye (figuratively speaking) who whip up
code for their internet boxes in Perl, Python, PHP, C, C++, etc , and i can't
get anything in Eu to run on a *nix box at all! Now, once again, i curse my
decision on software languages, because i can't present a good internet
image to a prospective customer, even if he is non-profit. I didn't dare
mention Euphoria after he said "linux" and "Perl" while we were talking.
Getting the "job" would have been a plume in my resume-to-be. While i can
run the backend on Eu on a winbox (and windows will my PITA), the internet
world will likely see a Perl program running on a *nix box, not a radical
earthshaking 100% Eu program. They won't even see the Eu. For several
years, i have not been able to get someone to install exu on a server, and
now that i have, i haveto get/pay a perl programmer to write the remote proxy
part of the application and delete the exu, or tell the dot-com i cannot provide
services to him,, all because i cannot get more than 10kBITS/s bandwidth
here (for under $1200/month).
So when you are comparing Eu to Perl or Python, etc, doesn't mean it can
be used for anything "professional" internet.
Kat
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