Re: GOTO - A fresh perspective?
On Sunday 10 February 2002 11:38 am, doc at edgetap.net wrote:
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> Bluntly, it is the programmer who is
> important not the language, and it is the programmer who should be given
> the choice and the decision should not be made for him/her by other
> people who have no use for a feature.
Absolutely true. Even as things stand now, there are a lot of features that
I don't use, because I have no need for them. The same is probably true
of everyone else here as well, except that the list of features we don't use
differs for each one of us. If we use Euphoria for a task, it's because it
HAS a feature we need, not because it DOESN'T HAVE a feature we don't need.
> And my final point (phew!): With the 2.3 release I was on the verge of
> buying Euphoria but, and please correct me if I am wrong, did someone
> from RapidEuphoria say "not for a million bucks!"? This does not suggest
> a very customer oriented approach and smacks of an almost elitist
> "ownership" type mentality. This may explain why in the year since I
> first looked at Euphoria much of it's potential is still untapped and
> apparently ignored by the programming community as a whole. I may still
> buy it but my decision will definately be influenced by replies to this
> post. RapidEuphoria giving Kat, at least, the choice to use GoTo without
> going through hoops will of course make the decision a no-brainer 
This is going to sound harsh, and maybe I'm totally off base, but Rob gives
the impression that he is tired of Euphoria, or has other things that
interest him more.
Look at the long time it took to add the rather insignificant namespace
improvement. Ok, it is a answer to the initial problem of name collisions,
but it certainly lacks the spark of originality that went into some other
features of Euphoria. IOW, he could have done so much more with that,
but apparently now lacks the incentive to make any significant changes.
Changes which, as you say, would make Euphoria more acceptable to the larger
programming community.
Hope I'm wrong about this.
Regards,
Irv
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