Re: Eu 'Textbook' Prospects (Was: RE: GOTO - A fresh perspective?)
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 03:24 pm, C. K. Lester wrote:
>
> > > Do you think that Eu is... developed enough to catch the
> > > attention of the programming community as a whole?
> >
> > No way. Compare it with Python, for example. Python
> > was invented in 1990. Now there are many books, and
> > tens (or hundreds) of thousands of users, including
> > some significant projects at Google, Industrial
> > Light+Magic, Four11, NASA.....
> >
> > Euphoria isn't even in the running.
>
> Irv, seems like you are suggesting that in order for a language to be
> "in the running" requires that it have many books published about it and
> many thousands of users, and some significant projects by high-quality
> named corporations.
Euphoria has had nearly as much time as Python to develop a following.
It hasn't. Euler's request was for a book about Euphoria, and I can't see
any publisher taking a chance on there being a market for a Euphoria book,
when there are so many much more popular languages out there to write about.
> I'm guessing Python didn't have all those starting out in 1990, and look
> where it is today. Sure, EUPHORIA was released in 1993, but it doesn't
> have the "backing" that Python has.
Python was started by one guy, just like Euphoria.
As far as I know, no money was spent to promote it.
If it now has more "backing" than Euphoria, why is that?
Why does O'Reilly publish books about Python?
Why do people pay for seminars and training classes in Python?
Apparently because a fairly large number of people find Python useful.
> Regardless, EUPHORIA is one of the best work horses out there.
Equally apparently, a much smaller number must find Euphoria useful,
otherwise we'd have the seminars and books as well.
Regards,
Irv
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