RE: Eu 'Textbook' Prospects (Was: RE: GOTO - A fresh perspective?)
> Euphoria has had nearly as much time as Python to develop a
> following. It hasn't.
This cannot be blamed on the language, however. That's like saying the
Amiga died because it was inferior to IBM DOS or Wintel boxes. WRONG!
It's a little word called "marketing" and "sales." Oops, that's two
words.
> 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.
Agreed. But, again, it's the market that's a concern here, not the
product.
> Python was started by one guy, just like Euphoria.
> As far as I know, no money was spent to promote it.
Then we need to hire that guy to promote EUPHORIA, 'cuz Rob sucks at it.
;) (No offense Rob. You've got a great product!)
> If it now has more "backing" than Euphoria, why is that?
See my comment above.
> Why does O'Reilly publish books about Python?
Because there's a market for it. Not because Python is superior.
> Why do people pay for seminars and training classes in Python?
ditto
> Apparently because a fairly large
> number of people find Python useful.
That's like saying "a fairly large number of people find Windows
useful." Well, yes, they do... but they've been duped into accepting a
sub-standard piece of crap OS. And that's a function of... You guessed
it! MARKETING!!!
> Equally apparently, a much smaller number must find Euphoria
> useful, otherwise we'd have the seminars and books as well.
Bad logic. :)
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