OpenEuphoria

Re: Standard Euphoria Library project

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Jul 18, 2005
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Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> Jason Gade wrote:
> 
> > D. Newhall wrote:
> >> 
> >> Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> <big snip>
> 
> > One place to look before writing a bunch of new code is Derek Parnell's
> > tk routines <a
> > href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/toolkits.zip">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/toolkits.zip</a>
> > and other
> > submissions to the archive
> > <a
> > href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?gen=on&keywords=Parnell">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?gen=on&keywords=Parnell</a>
> > for some very good ideas.
> > 
> > Also Bernie Ryan's Utility Library <a
> > href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/mixedlib.zip">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/mixedlib.zip</a>
> > 
> > Much of the C standard library can be found, especially in Derek's toolkit
> > routines.
> 
> Also let's not forget Ricardo Forno's General Functions library, and
> more ...  No doubt that there are many "diamonds" among more than 1400
> contributions.
> 
> However I think we should not look at all those valuable contributions,
> and then consider what will be the best way to put them all together.
> IMHO we should go the different way: Let's build a solid framework first,
> and then fill that framework with contents.

True.  I just think that we should not discount them completely either.  There
is something to be said for idea *and* code reuse.

> Furthermore, please see 
> - <a
> href="http://home.arcor.de/luethje/esl/index.htm">http://home.arcor.de/luethje/esl/index.htm</a>
> - <a
> href="http://home.arcor.de/luethje/esl/esl_paper01.htm">http://home.arcor.de/luethje/esl/esl_paper01.htm</a>
> 
> Regards,
>    Juergen
> 


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