Re: Proseq
Martin Nilsson wrote:
>Jiri Babor wrote:
>>Please resist Rob's attempts to bribe you into silence. Nostradamus's
>>quite right, finally. jiri
>
>I'm not sure if you're serious or if you're just trying to do
>me a favour by making people curious of my document. But anyway:
No and yes.
>I have no time or lust for intrigues.
Nice sentence, nicely spaced too. But a damn lie coming from someone
who just hit us with 35 pages of them :).
>And, regarding Proseq, most of its features could probably not be
>introduced into Euphoria without breaking backwards-compability.
Almost all programming languages reach a stage, if they live long
enough, when a major surgery, not just a facelift, is required to
prolong their lives. Rob has been particularly careful with his
embellishments, but I am sure even he now regrets some of his
earlier decisions. (Look at M$ Windows, if you want to know what
mere tinkering and 'backward-compatibility' can do to you...)
>And it appears to me that the best way to show request for
>Proseqish features would simply be if many people used the Proseq
>translator when it gets ready.
One day *you will* realize there are always so many "best" ways to do
the same thing, it's not worth worrying about. Just do it. ;)
>So, to be concise: I just invented the nuclear bomb; that doesn't
>mean that I'm responsible for what people do with it. (Or does it?)
Perhaps you should add Oppenheimer's quote to the list of
acknowledgements.
>Btw, I have a lot of things to catch up with now, and
>probably I won't be able to start the coding before June.
>So nobody should get paranoid if I disappear for a while...
I'll be waiting. Thanks. jiri
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