OpenEuphoria

Re: Rob?

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Feb 09, 2006
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Vincent wrote:
> Robert Craig wrote:
> >   1. Show me an actual example where you or someone else has 
> >      run into this "problem" in real life. Explain why in the first
> >      decade of Euphoria, *no one* ever reported this "problem".
> >      Explain why I should delay 100 other important features and bug
> >      fixes, that people actually want, to address this possible "problem".
> > 
> >   2. Give me a simple, totally reliable solution, coded in Euphoria,
> >      that works on all platforms, with no ill side effects and does
> >      not add *180* lines of code to the scanner. You say you will
> >      do the long-term maintenance, but you've "quit" Euphoria twice 
> >      in just the past year.
> > 
> >   3. Give me something I can write in the Euphoria language definition
> >      that does not read "if you change the size of a comment in a
> >      source file by one byte, your program's behavior could 
> >      change drastically".
> > 
> >   4. It is bad netiquette to quote private e-mails on public
> >      forums without the other party's permission. It does not
> >      encourage the other party to exchange private e-mails with you
> >      in the future.
>
> 
> So now that I've answered all those for you, you're just going to ignore me?
> That isn't very fair. I think I deserve a reply. If I was in your position I
> certainly wouldn't ignore a paying customer.
>
> Regards,
> Vincent
>
> P.S: What ever happened to the customer always being right?

I think you're getting a bit paranoid.
I'm not ignoring you. It's just that I sometimes
have to leave my computer to sleep, eat, or go out and buy food. 
I also have to serve many other customers. Customers who 
disagree with you. Can all customers be right?

I'm also working hard on the multitasking feature, which I've now
completed except for packaging the files and uploading them.
Both the interpreter and translator now work fine with multitasking
on DOS (both Watcom and DJGPP), Windows (Watcom, Borland, Lcc),
Linux and FreeBSD. I also have example programs that use multitasking
on all platforms. I'm building the Linux executables on a newer
version of Linux, so maybe some things will work better 
for some people.

I'll grant you that you've answered 1 and 4, (though
the only person you referred to in 1 found a workaround,
and is "not demanding" a change to the language).
However I don't think you've provided a solution that
answers both 2 & 3.

You've also mentioned that your 180-line solution
adds 10% to load time. I find this hard to believe,
but if it's true, I can't believe that you would want that.
You've been complaining with great passion about the
load time issue, but now you're willing to throw 10%
out the window, as long as the time is spent in your
code handling a possible problem that does not affect
99% of all programs?

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com