RE: The fate of Euphoria
Greg Haberek wrote:
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> > > Change is good. Change comes with time. With time comes maturity. So
> > > let's give Euphoria some time to mature. We're only on Version 2.x.
> >
> >
> > That's a joke right?
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> I only wish. How old is C? 40 years plus, right? And how many people
> use C? How many different C compilers are there? Euphoria is roughly
> 10 years old, it's still wet behind the ears. And its only being
> developed by one person. C was developed by teams of people, Heck it
> was re-developed into C++ and again into C#.NET.
>
> I don't think everyone jumped on C right away, or C++ for that matter.
> I but over the years people realized how powerful and dynamic C could
> be. So more and more people started using it. Now, a half a century
> later, 75% of all programmers (that I know) use C. If Rob continues to
> develop Euphoria, and we as users continue to use it and love it and
> promote it to other users, then maybe Euphoria will grow to the level
> of C, and in 30 years people will wonder why they ever relied on such
> an archaic language in the first place.
>
> ~Greg
> www.merkur.000k2.com <-- I don't think its working right now
>
C was adopted quite quickly afaik. It was developed as a solution to
programming in ASM, when developing on the (then new) unix platform.
The fact that it's so popular now is because over time, C developed as
one of the only alternatives to languages like basic. ANSI was asked to
step in, and made the language an industry standard. Of course it's
popular. Eu is not a comparison to C in the slightest.
What about other languages like Java and PHP? How about D?
They are roughly the same age as Eu, and were started by single
developers too.
Chris Bensler
Code is Alchemy
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