RE: What we really need...
- Posted by Ray Smith <smithr at ix.net.au> Nov 12, 2002
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irv at take.maxleft.com wrote: [snip] > Consider Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, Rebol..... > Euphoria is smaller and faster than any of the above. > Euphoria is more readable than perl or java, and (arguably) python and > ruby > as well. The reason??? Perl, Python and Ruby are 100% free and open source. Many people add features, apply patches and make improvements. Because they are open source they exist on almost every OS ever invented! Java is being developed, supported and promoted by almost all the big computer companies in the world. Probably hundreds ... no ... thousands of people are involved in its development and promotion. Lesser issues but still important ... there are basically no tutorials or documentation to help people learn to use Euphoria. One killer app won't make a difference ... maybe 10 solid apps would. I like Python ;) ... When Python people say Google runs on Python, or these 50 commercial web sites, or these 100 commercial applications are written in Python it matters. I dare anyone who hasn't looked at the Python code repository ... the "Vaults of Parnassus" (http://www.vex.net/parnassus/) to go there and tell me they aren't impressed. Or browse the online builtin module list of Python at ... http://python.org/doc/current/modindex.html Want to connect to any of the databases at http://python.org/topics/database/modules.html using a standard API? Anyone interested in web programming http://python.org/topics/web/? This is the work of many dozens (probably hundreds) of people over a very long period of time. As a note ... much of this work is done in a commercial environment and given back to the community because Python was given to them! The current Euphoria business model will never compete with these languages. Anyone who wants Euphoria to be anything that it currently isn't will be very disappointed. Saying all that I still like Euphoria, if Euphoria can do the job you want that's great, if it can't do what you want and "you personally" can't make it do what you want, then it most likely won't do what you want in the near future. Everyone makes their own choice. My comments might sound negative (and they are) ... nothing I have seen in the last 3 or 4 years makes me believe Euphoria in the future will be anything different to what it is now. (Yes the number and quality of Euphoria libraries are improving but at a slower rate than the competition ... it will never catch up) Ray Smith http://rays-web.com