Re: Upcoming releases
Daniel Berstein wrote:
>
> Robert Craig wrote:
> > The alpha WIN32 version will be as I've described before:
> >
> > - initially very primitive with little GUI support
> > - you can run as a Windows console application =
> > (in a text window)
>
> I still don't get this... I'm using Win95 with Euphoria 1.5 in a
> text console... wich is the difference??? For me a windows application
> is basically a GUI stuff. Even worst, windows is slower than DOS...
> why do the same thing in a slower interpreter?
>
> When is comming a Linux version (cool)???
>
> --
I think Daniel has a very good point, here. Euphoria is small, fast and weird,
anathema to Windoz users, but fits right in with the Linux crowd (these folks
seem to like doing everything themselves)
Why jump into an already over-crowded market when the time might be more
profitably be spent refining Euphoria for DOS (or perhaps making it Euphoria
INSTEAD OF dos - think about imbedding it on an eprom for dedicated controllers,
etc. May be good money in that!)
Anyway, if you just can't live without neat windows, the TEXT_GUI modules
already provide Win 3.1, Win 95 and Mac Copland graphics iinterfaces, faster
than windoz does That code does at least 90% of what we want, let's continue
refining it.
Hey, I know there are lots of windoz things Euphoria can't do - interprocess
communication, etc - but people who need and know how to use these things
already program in Delphi or C++. For a simple program , the kind most
people are going to write, TEXT_GUI looks and works just fine, and is really
simple.
Irv - my $0.02 worth
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