Future of Euphoria
- Posted by dm31 at uow.edu.au
May 26, 2002
Srry if you get this twice. I sent in half a day ago and still haven't
got it back.
The Future for Euphoria
I first started Euphoria 3 years ago and had come from a background of
Basic, ASM and Pascal. Althought I could see the advantages of this
langauge, I wasn't sure on how much could actually be achieved with
it. With time my respect for Eu grew greatly with librarys like
truecolr.e, asm.e, and through some of the games (like lemon). Last
year I was used Eu for my major project in Software Design &
Development (A new "Higher School Certificate" course) where it was
worth 40% of my mark for the year. I really needed time profile to
optimise my program (it was 20+ printed pages) and since I could not
afford the Complete Ed, I asked if the school could purchase it.
Before they would agree I had to convince the teacher that I would
benefit by using this as a opposed to Delphi 4 like most of the other
students. After downloading heaps from the contrib page I finally
convinced him (Rob will know the guy as Brett Hughes).
My Grandfather works at Kaz Computing in Australia as a programmer. He
got interested in Eu after seeing me use it, so I made a CD with
Euphoria with some of the more popular librarys and games.
I can't speak for all the you, but being young I would like to think
that I can make a living with Euphoria just like a programmer using
C++ can. Rob has done a fantastic job with Euphoria with it truly
world-wide, but I sure most people would agree, that for Euphoria to
go to the popularity of the more know languages is that Euphoria needs
to more widely know in the programming community, and hence have more
programmers.
First, I believe that there should be a second standard zip that can
be downloaded with the Euphoria Pub. Ed. with some of the most used
librarys and programs, such as WinLib all setup for you. That we,
people who join Euphoria can easily download libraries the will most
probilibly be of use, and hence more likely to continue using
Euphoria.
I have found two companies that may be of use in making Euphoria
'Bigger'
The first is a company called 'SoftWrap' It provides a way of
distributing your program to a large market of users through such
things as magizines. You wrap your software in the Softwrap installer,
then Softwrap distributes it. The installer gives you two options,
enabling you two distribute a trial version, if the user wishes to
purchase the full version, they then pay by credit card and recieve a
code to activite the full version installion. This could be used to
distribute Euphoria, or programs that we write with it. (They take
less then 10% of the profits, more profits, less % taking)
The second company is Asynchrony. It's a company that is acts as a
very large meeting point for all people in software development. You
make, or join a project, finish the software and Asynchrony will do
all the marketing and sell and give you a large cut of the profits. I
joined back in it's beta days and quite like it's layout and format.
The only thing is that the programmers that are their are all C++, VB
or Delphi. Maybe we could make Euphoria a presence their and start
some Euphoria projects.
Ah, well. Just so ideas to think about. Let me hear you comments
Regards,
Dan McG
ps
to see what I'm talking about visit
www.softwrap.com ?? i think
www.asynchrony.com
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