Re: WAH! My Euphoria is broken and Robert Craig is evil...
i agree Irv makes a good point
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 18:20:49 -0800, irv mullins <guest at rapideuphoria.com>
wrote:
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> posted by: irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com>
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> Jeff Houck wrote:
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> > I don't normally get involved in these kinds of discussions. When I
> > read crap like this I make an exception:
> >
> > "Perhaps the best thing that could happen to Euphoria now is for Derek,
> > Judith, Bernie, et al to withdraw their libraries from circulation. Let Rob
> > do everything his way and see how things work out."
> >
> > This is certainly intelligent. NOT!
> >
> > Give Robert a break! 2.5 is ALPHA! It has problems and nay-saying whiners
> > aren't improving matters for the rest of us.
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> It has nothing much to do with 2.5 - it has everything to do with the
> non-growth of Euphoria. Even the simplest requests (like version(), or
> the file path/name include problem) go unheeded and ignored.
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> If it were left up to Mr. Craig, Euphoria would most likely still
> be a DOS-only programming language. Almost all commercial (and most free)
> programming languages come with support for Windows, with IDE's,
> networking functions, and the other things needed by Windows programmers.
> Euphoria doesn't.
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> If Rob wants to add those things, and is willing to support them, then
> he should do so, and charge an appropriate price. Maybe that would
> "improve matters for the rest of us". Whatever. The current plan,
> which consists mostly of going around in big, slow circles, isn't
> working very well.
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> Anyway, I will accomodate you by doing something intelligent:
> I'll no longer be hanging around here, hoping something will happen.
> I should have gone years ago -there are other programming languages out
> there.
>
> Goodbye to all, and good luck.
>
> Irv
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