Euphoria 2.5
I've been following this for some time and I wanted to share some thoughts...
What is RDS' customer base for 2.5? I mean, who are the people paying
money for a license?
*Hobbyists with $80 to spend who want to make modifications run at full
speed and don't care if they can redistribute them.
*Hobbyists who want to bind or shroud their code.
*Business programmers who need to make modifications run at full speed and
can convince their customers to pay for the extra license.
*Business programmers who need to bind or shroud their code.
*Translator customers from the above categories who want to get rid of the
delay message.
Am I missing any? I don't belong to any of these groups.
You can take this with a grain of salt because I have never registered
Euphoria. Until Derek's contest I had never written more than 50 lines
or so of code with Euphoria. My interest is mostly aesthetic.
I saw myself as more of a potential customer pre-2.5. Now, except for my
features wishlist (which everyone seems to have), I get everything for
free with the PD version. I could even write my own back-end or translate
Euphoria to yet another language or whatever. I have no reason now to send
any money to RDS.
I think that RDS could make more money if they wrote a couple of books -- a
basic computer science text using Euphoria, and an intermediate/advanced
book on writing and implementing an interpreter using Euphoria as the case
study.
I would buy that book.
j.
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