Re: Challenge for speed freaks
On Friday 15 February 2002 01:28 pm, Robert Craig wrote:
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> OK Irv, you win.
> Since Euphoria isn't the most "popular" language in the world,
> there must be something tragically wrong with it,
> and I might as well quit.
Perhaps you already have. You hinted as much in your recent post:
"People should not focus so much on what I'm going to do.
My job is to stimulate, and harness the creativity of the
Euphoria community. I can't predict what's going to happen."
Isn't that another way of saying "if you want it done, do it yourself"?
Over the years, I've watched many dozens of well-qualified
people make well-meaning and polite suggestions about how to improve
Euphoria, how it might be made more useful, and how it might better be
promoted, (so you would make more money from it). Usually your
response was some version of "I don't see the need for that".
Most of them eventually gave up trying to be helpful and moved on.
I thought that, out of a sense of pride in your creation, you would clear up
the few rough spots in Euphoria, instead, you refuse to admit that there are
any rough spots, no matter how many people point them out.
I thought that, out of a sense of competitiveness, you would realize the
importance of Windows support, and be quick to add it. But Dave, Derek,
Judith and others have had to do most of that.
I thought perhaps you were tired of Euphoria, and just didn't want to bother
adding anything new - a charge you hotly denied.
I thought perhaps you weren't making any real money from Euphoria, maybe it
was just an annoying sideline to your real occupation - you claimed this was
not true, yet you apparently see no need and make little effort to make it
more popular. (A move which would translate directly into more money for you.)
I even thought you might have done what I often do - programmed yourself into
a corner, and don't dare make any major changes for fear of ruining
the whole thing. I have been assured this is not the case.
I have thought all these things, only to be told I was wrong.
I'm glad to know I was wrong.
Yet your actions, along with your words quoted above, give the
impression that you'd rather be doing something else.
Let me suggest a career in undertaking. Your customers never
talk back, and you get to bury your mistakes.
> You should go to Salt Lake City and tell all the athletes
> who didn't get a medal that they've wasted their time
> and should quit too.
Other than the 2 or 3 who will get TV contracts from this, yes,
I'd say the majority have wasted years of their time.
But that's another subject.
Irv
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