Re: Jiri Babor .. x!
Hi, Ken,
> He's ALIVE! :)
Any rumours about my departure from this world are obviously grossly
exagerated. But I also enjoy reading my own obituaries, just as much as
anybody else, so if you have seen any good ones around, please let me
know...
> Are you still developing "x" ?
Not actively, not at the moment, but I am still thinking a lot about it,
and, probably, shall return to it soon. The main problem was that David
Cuny poured a lot of really cold water all over it. And I tend to
respect what David says, despite the fact he comes, philosophically,
almost from the opposite direction. (This is, mind you, just my
impression: David researches his projects reasonably well, decides on a
formula, establishes a proper framework and then sticks to it, no
matter what, with just an occasional glance in the direction of the
market. I, on the other hand, get easily carried away by a crazy idea,
usually quite useless, and do not even attempt any serious research or
forward planning. I just hope like hell the structure of the project
will somehow emerge on its own accord from the initialized mess. And,
of course, I simply lack David's discipline and appetite for work!)
I also wanted to wait for the long promised 2.3 iteration of Euphoria.
That turned out to be a huge disappointment for me, personally.
Basically the message seems to be if you want a radical change, no
matter how desirable it appears to you, there is no point in waiting,
just roll your own... But I must also admit I am only beginning to
appreciate Rob's dilemmas.
> Are you still considering LINUX? Come on over!.
I played with Linux a bit on my old machine last year. It was an MSDOS
install of Peanut 8.4 distribution, painfully slow, not much fun at all.
(Win95 would not allow me to de-fragment the hard drive on that machine,
so I was not able to create Linux partitions...) My new machine
which I gave myself for Christmas, has a separate, dedicated 20 Gb drive
for Linux. At the moment I am exploring Mandrake 8.1 installation, it
looks ok, but I have not done much with it so far.
jiri
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