Re: Eu 'Textbook' Prospects (Was: RE: GOTO - A fresh perspective?)
<FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>Yes, though it's not on my
hands to convince a programming community of
what they're missing by not giving it a (serious) try. I'm not that
important or have that much influence. It's also true that many
features are uncomplete though functional. I can see people giving more
attention do EDS now (what is more of my taste than games). BTW, please
game guys, no flames! 
I just received a mail from Travis Beaty about books and ideas. It was
good to hear from Travis, a person which judgement I respect very much.
His idea about making Eu popular is very clever -- visibility -- that
could be translate into exposure. What else can I say? He's absolutely
true. Use Eu to build "visible" apps. If they like your job they may
get curious to know what language you use for building, how come it's
so fast, so tiny, etc. I told you that I knew about Eu from a country
fellow that made Hide in Picture from a note at Lockergnome. That's
cool!
-- Euler
On 12 Feb 2002, at 3:25, encephalon1 at msn.com wrote:
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Do you think that Eu is far enough along in the development process,
though? From browsing through this list for some time now, I have
gathered that there are still a few features missing that make the
language a little less 'competitive' than a few other more established
language; of course, there are numerous advantages as well. The
language is functional, but is it developed enough to catch the
attention of the programming community as a whole?
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<paraindent><param>left</param><bold>From:</bold> Euler German</paraindent>
<paraindent><param>left</param><bold>Sent:</bold> Monday, February 11, 2002 5:16
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Hi Rod:
On 11 Feb 2002, at 12:28, Rod Jackson wrote:
>
>
> > > Junko and I just got tired of doing it.
> > > Actually, she wanted to keep going, but
> > > I wanted to spend less time at the print shop and the post office,
> > > and more time programming. Also, it seemed silly in this
> > > day and age to be shipping a bunch of paper half way
> > > around the world, when the information is available for
> > > free in electronic form, including hyper links.
> > >
> > I agree with you 100%. That is your job, what you know best. Please
> > don't do
> > anything else. What I'm trying to make others than you and me
understand is
> > that they could write about (Euphoria) what they know ! and make
money doing it.
> & gt; I'm sure you'll be very thankful if a textbook bring another
bunch of brand
> > new customers to your door, won't you?
>
> I've also thought of the need for (or simple convenience of) a book
> introducing programming via Euphoria, and Euphoria via programming.
I'm
> sure many others have too.
>
I can assure you that is!
> Perhaps the demand for this is growing. I don't exactly have much time
> myself right now, but if my article is received well, and no one else
> jumps at this, I might consider it myself. (Naturally, I'd be
interested
> in profiting from it, but another side of me would want to make it an
> e-book distributed freely with Eu. Hmm.)
>
>
That's the idea. You lead many fellows to Rob's door and Rob will share
part of
his gains with you. Nothing is simpler. Then another guy/girl may
consider
teach Euphoria other way and them we'll have a second book, and
another,! and
maybe O'Reilly can get int erest to publish something or maybe they are
just
tired of Perl... A book is also easier to translate into other
languages as the
difficult part is to show the idea, the core meaning. The rest you get
from
language reference. That's how things happens, but needs a first pebble
at the
pond to make waves!
> Rod Jackson
>
I want to publicly thank you for your reply. You gave me new hopes.
-- BR>
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