RE: Acknowledgement
francis at gmx.co.uk wrote:
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> This project is now complete, and fully operational
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> Having downloaded libraries willy nilly, and learnt a lot from them, I
> cannot STAND the fact that literally
> EVERY fucking thing has to be "acknowledged". I find this list bordering
> on the EXTREME of commentory: "-- I
> poked 2 bytes into this memory address - thanks XXXX for the poke2 code"
> or "Thanks you to David Cuny for this
> link_dll routine" or "link c_function routine" when all the routines are
> like basically one liners.
Everything doesn't HAVE to be acknowledged unless it is specified
in any license details.
If a programmer want's to document where they got 1, 2 or 3 lines of
code from I think it is great! I can't imagine that it distracts
from the understanding of the program and most certainly won't have
any detectable effect on running the program.
If you "borrow" a few lines of code from someone else you don't need to
acknowledged them, it's a personal choice. Some choose to, some
don't. I can't see it being a problem either way.
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> One more thing Euphoria needs:
> A decent socket library. I had all sorts of WSAWOULDBLOCK errors from
> TCP4U, which looked like the only decent
> choice available. But it is completely *synchronous*.
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I agree with you totally about Euphoria not having a great sockets
library.
Without the work of a few people from the Euphoria community there
would be "NO" sockets libraries available at all!
Euphoria is a real community based language. Everyone seems to enjoy
releasing lots of libraries, examples, full programs, utilities
etc without receiving any payment and often no recognition.
It's a "I'm happy to share as long as others shared" attitude.
Out of interest what have you "shared" with the community?
You will get out what you put in!
Are you planning on releasing your now finished project?
If I was working on a project and was using some freely available
resources I doubt I'd go to those you freely give away their work
and use profanities telling them what to do, how to do it, and what
they should have done or how they have done it.
Ray Smith
http://rays-web.com
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