OpenEuphoria

A modal farewell

• Posted by Mario Steele <eumario at trilake.net> Jul 25, 2005
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Hello All,

After much consideration of what Euphoria is, what features have been requested
time and time, and time again, and watching generations of Euphoria Programmers
come and go, it has now come to my time to leave the Euphoria Community.  As much
as I have enjoyed programming in Euphoria, it is my general disappointment that
features that are commonly requested, get tossed aside, without consideration to
what the programmer has to go through.  The language I've moved on to, is Ruby. 
It may not be as fast as Euphoria, but at this time, I'm willing to sacrifice
speed, for actual programming Features.

For thoes of you who are intrested, Ruby is a Object Oriented Language, that has
a simple syntax, and easy to understand view.  It's almost to easy to catch on
with, if you understand Object Oriented languages.  The reason why I choose Ruby,
was partly for the fact that Ruby is an OOL, but it also has features that we've
desprately requested from Rob in Euphoria, such as True Exception Handling, an
excellent include/namespace system, Standard Libraries, that put Euphoria to
shame, Full Thread Support, Cross Platform for Windows, Linux, and MacOS, and
while it lacks any centralized Binding Feature, there are people who have
ingenuitive designs for creating single executables, in one method or another.  I
can find myself actually understanding the code that I'm writting, and I'm not
even begining to learn the language, or the features.

I will still be around to help out the Euphoria community however I can, and I
still have Euphoria 2.5, but I seriously doubt I will purchase another Euphoria
product, unless there's some drastic changes, that includes features that both I
myself, and many others have requested.  And like they say, if history repeats
itself (As it has many times with Euphoria), I'm not seeing that happening
anytime soon.  So, till the next time, Have fun programming, and don't let the
language dictate to you, what you need, let you dictate to the language, what you
need.

Mario Steele
http://enchantedblade.trilake.net
Attaining World Dominiation, one byte at a time...