Re: Eu Rebellion (was: New Euphoria Users Website)

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On 15 Nov 2002, at 18:05, jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:

> 
> On  0, "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Despite all the GUI toolkits, Euphoria is still a DOS application.
> > Anything
> > > extention beyond that has been developed by the users, and isn't
> > officially
> > > supported by RDS.
> > 
> > As such, why concern ourselves what will be "supported" by RDS? Let's start
> > a
> > EUPHORIA Users Group that will build on the core provided by RDS. Who cares
> > what RobC will "support" or not? We're just using him for his core language.
> > :)
> > 
> > There are groups who do the same with Java, VB, Python, Puka, Lua,
> > LiverNuts, etc...
> > 
> > > I'm not saying this is a bad thing. That's just the way it is, and I don't
> > see
> > > any reason to think it will change in the near future.
> > 
> > RDS won't change it, but what stops a group of brilliant developers from
> > taking things as far as possible?
> > 
> > Or is the core of EUPHORIA just too limiting? Or are there different
> > roadblocks?
> > 
> 
> This was the idea behind Dredge. Exu was the core, and then the parsers
> would
> build on top of it. However, this didn't inspire a lot of people,
> apparently,
> so I've decided it may be time to put it on the back burner.
> 
> Instead, I'm gonna try to move to an open-source Exu. Perhaps this might
> inspire more people?

Except for the "u" in exu.

Kat

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