exw again
Ad, I think the North Americans prefer, for some unknown reasons to
grab *bulls* by their horns, not cows. And despite your warning, I
will indulge, for the last time, I promise, in some more random
windows smashing, as Craig Gilbert put it so nicely.
Jacques, when I issued my provocation, I expected a certain amount of
condescending flak, but perhaps from different quarters. At least, you
tempered your comments with a generous offer to educate the rest of
us, the Great Unwashed, about the merits of the M$ scheme of things,
and to reward the selected worthy few with a strictly limited access
to Bill's Kingdom.
Jacques, I know you mean well, and I am sure there are quite a few
Euphorians eagerly awaiting your promised contributions. And I admire
Robert Craig for what he has already done with Euphoria, otherwise I
would not even be here.
Now, with all the platitudes out of the way, yes, I do prefer simple
and elegant solutions. But I am not a Luddite and I recognize that our
increasingly complex world often demands complex answers to get the
necessary leverage. I also know we are just at the beginning of the
cycle, and the things will get a little bit easier, but I repeat, 246
lines of dense code just to say "Hello, world!" is ridiculous, and I
certainly would not call it progress! What's more, most of it appears
to be in the nature of the beast; incredibly, even after some fifteen
years of continuous development it is still an unreliable hotchpotch,
just masquerading as an operating system.
It really saddens me to witness this unseemly rush to join the Windoze
bandwagon. For at least two other reasons. One, Borland Delphi as well
as the latest incarnations of Visual Basic are already much better
tools than Euphoria could ever be in this arena, so why to condemn
her, from the start, to the fate of Liberty Basics? And two, there are
better alternatives available: I like, for instance, the Python's
clever interface with Tcl/Tk (tkinter) which gives it a real platform
independence.
I am sorry about the length of this message, but I had to get it off
my chest. Jiri
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