OpenEuphoria

Re: Honest criticism

• Posted by "Braden, Flash" <cbraden at VISA.COM> Nov 09, 1998
• 716 views

well sed.

I'm inclined to agree w/ David.

-Flash->

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> From:         Irv Mullins[SMTP:irv at ELLIJAY.COM]
> Sent:         Sunday, November 08, 1998 7:31 AM
> To:   EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Honest criticism
>
> There are several things about Euphoria that continue to be,
> in David Cuny's words "stumbling blocks". Over the past couple
> of years, there have been many threads on these subjects, with
> numerous possible solutions.
>
> It would seem to me that the time to make these changes would
> be now, while the impact would be minimal. Let's face it, there
> are approximately zero commercial applications written in
> Euphoria right now. Dave and Jiri and a couple of others would
> have to change some of the code in their excellent libraries.
> I believe they would be willing to do so, if they could take
> advantage of the improvements.
>
> Backward compatibility is mostly an illusion in any language,
> and as long as there is a free public domain version
> available, it's not important to most people.
> If you feel badly about "breaking" people's code,
> remember that the people writing the code are the
> same ones making the suggestions for change!
>
> Regards,
> Irv
>