RE: Challenge for speed freaks
Hi Irv,
First of all I think it's not really fair towards Rob to ask him why
Euphoria isn't used more than other languages. It's like asking the
author of a good book why his book isn't sold better.
>Why, if Euphoria is so much faster, are there hundreds or thousands >of
>people who use perl, python, or java, etc. for every person who >uses
>Euphoria.
This question is to much simplified. I think it has nothing to do with
the speed of Euphoria. Euphoria isn't a well known language at the
moment which has several reasons not just one. (Take the name for
example, it doesn't realy sounds cool.)
>Why do the bookshelves contain dozens of books on perl, python, and
>>java, etc. but none for Euphoria?
The chicken and egg story. Because the're not enough users to make it
commercially interesting to publish books about Euphoria. Because there
are no books and because you can't buy Euphoria in your local
shopping-mall the number of user is growing quit slow.
>Why do computer magazines run articles on these other languages, but
>make no mention of Euphoria?
See the former question.
>Could it be that *fast* just isn't the most important criteria for >most
>programmers?
Yes, ease of use and flexibility for example. Euphoria offers both.
>I don't buy the argument that marketing makes the difference, >either -
>a lot of money has been spent to promote Java, but the >rest? Not that I
>know of.
Maybe marketing doesn't make THE difference but it does make a
difference. I think in the case of Euphoria marketing is the bottleneck.
How can people start using Euphoria when then never heard of it?
Furthermore I think it's much more difficult to go from 1000 to 10,000
users then from 10,000 to 100,000 users. Once you make enough money to
reserve a good amount of money for marketing things really start off.
And once you've got more users people like you are easier to convince
that Euphoria is the #1 language to use for small commercial projects.
Bye,
Jasper.
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