OpenEuphoria

Disgruntle Members

• Posted by president at insight-concepts.com Jul 03, 2001
• 363 views

Hi All,
 
I would like to share the type of private E-mail I receive,
 
Everett L.(Rett) Williams wrote:
 
I don't believe that you have either the experience or the=
 knowledge 
to sound so paternal. REXX has even more power than Euphoria,=
 and
does most of the same things in many of the same ways. It has=
 much
more powerful input and output capabilities. It is fully dynamic,=
 and
suffers from some of the pitfalls and problems with any fully=
 dynamic
language. It is easy to create constructs that have performance 
problems and it is easy to miss the implications of a fully=
 dynamic 
language with inlining of variables and recursive interpretation.=
 
Anybody that has used OS2 has been exposed to the power and the 
problems of REXX. It has been ported to multiple platforms, but=
 the 
support is spotty. By the way, REXX has been around for almost 20=
 
years. This is only one example. It is certainly appropriate for=
 you 
to have an opinion, but you haven't even been around Euphoria=
 long 
enough to be aware of the duration of some of these wish lists. 
Frustration is high and it has caused many highly capable
programmers to move on, leaving only those of us stubborn enough=
 to 
think that eventually Rob will respond. Namespaces, structures,=
 and 
modularity have been issues for many years on the list.I know=
 that 
you have a business, but so do I and so do many others on this
list. I have also worked for and with businesses from mom and pop=
 up 
to multi-billion dollar enterprises. Myself and several others=
 have 
been in this field for over thirty years and are still full time=
 in 
the business. So can the "president at xyz.com" attitude and provide=
 
your reasoning and skip the lectures. We are not your employees=
 and 
your wisdom is and will remain suspect until you actually provide=
 
some technical analysis in place of  your "advice".