Re: What we really need...
- Posted by Kat <kat at kogeijin.com> Nov 12, 2002
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On 12 Nov 2002, at 13:53, dubetyrant at hotmail.com wrote: > > > >From: irv at take.maxleft.com > >Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com > >To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com> > >Subject: What we really need... > >Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 04:03:44 -0500 > > > > > >Do we need a 'killer app' to make Euphoria more popular? > >I say no. > > > And why would we need to make Euphoria more popular? It's a chicken-egg problem. 1) More popular means more money for RobC, incentive to change the language for the users, and more functionality. 2) Changes to the language would make it more useable, easier, and more popular, but there is no money in it immeadiately. Us annoying loudmouths are a minority and all we can do is press for #2, until (if ever) there is a #1. Or like David Cuny (and others) said and did, move to another language like Lua, Python, or Perl (ewwwww). Getting RobC to add things these other languages have is like getting him to lay the egg, but we can't have chicken for dinner till that egg hatches and grows up. Kat