Re: Fair Criticism
Chris wrote:
> Hold on David. I did not insult Robert or the Forum.
Perhaps you meant to write:
I did not intend to insult Robert or the Forum.
> How is my comment about promoting Euphoria more
> or any less insulting, than when a Euphoria member
> points out what Euphoria is not and what it will never be.
You may have *intended* to write that Euphoria is being properly promoted,
or effectively promoted. But you wrote - without qualification - that
Euphoria was *not* being promoted:
>> Unless Euphoria is promoted...
> If Robert decides to throw in the towel
> tomorrow, where will Euphoria be then?
Robert has already said that he's making the source available for people to
modify, change and market. I think it's fair to say that if Robert plans on
throwing in the towel, he'll lift the current restrictions of not allowing
shrouding, and so on.
> I never said the programs in the archive
> aren't any good, I said there should be
> more members contributing.
Why much Euphoria be 'appreciated' by such a wide audience?
> 1 Why are there few libraries and programs?
Do you mean 'so few libraries usable by your developers'?
> 2 Why hasn't the author written more programs
> with his own language?
Perhaps because he's a compiler writer, and not an application writer? Or
perhaps because he doesn't have time? How this is a gauge of Euphoria's
fitness is beyond me.
> 3 Am I insane for developing a program with a "hobbyist language"?
Euphoria is indeed a "hobbyist language". Why this is a bad thing is unclear
to me.
-- David Cuny
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