Re: the fate of a euphorian
Mic wrote:
>It just struck me that I haven't heard/seen anything from the
>following ppl in a (very) long time:
>
>Ralf N, Jacques D, Lucius H, Mark Honnor, Michael Bolin & some
>others..
>
>So my question is, what happened to these guys? Did all die in a
>plane-crash or what? Or did they just decide to give up on euphoria
>all the sudden?
I do not think they all died. But I am sure some of them left to avoid
death from boredom.
In an attempt to generate a bit of excitement, I'll tell you why I
think this forum is getting less attractive every day. In summary,
it's probably just these three things: Mike-the Spike, incessant
window$ talk and general apparent lack of progress on Robert's part.
In detail, I am not going to spend any time on misogynist Mike and his
lavatory culture. His crude fantasies as well as his transparent lies
can be simply filtered out.
It's a bit more difficult with the Bill's mob. Last night, in quiet
desperation, I went over the last hundred messages. Seventy-nine (79)
of them related to some obscure aspect of Window$, significant, I
suspect, only to Judith and Dan. Now, I am sure Judith is a very nice
lady and Dan is most likely a perfect gentleman. But their obsession
with countless quirks of a second rate operating system does not
coincide with one of my hobbies, nor it is the official subject of
this forum - Euphoria. Dan and Judith are not the only transgressors
in this area, but I am not going to name anybody else - two or three
new enemies a day is my current limit.
The third one, Robert, is also tough, because, just like someone else
said recently, I, too, would prefer to stay on his good side. But his
progress with Euphoria has been painfully slow over the last couple of
years. Ok, we had the Linux version (still a forbidden garden for me,
but I suspect not much more than a re-compilation with a little bit of
tweaking plus some testing), EDS (was it just me who yawned so
brazenly?), and lastly the translator/compiler - lots of expectations,
but eventually even a bigger yawn. I know it's early days yet and it
can only get better, but the signs are not good. The speed gains are
not as great as everyone expected, the size of resulting executables
is truly horrendous, and the initial compiler selection was not
terribly inspirational either. (I think I'll save my meagre
micro-economy fortune for the real McCoy, a native compiler...)
The real issues have not been tackled. There are not that many of them
currently on my list, just two: (1) more sophisticated namespace
handling, and (2) better, smarter tools and/or structures for
interfacing with the outside world.
What do you say, Robert? Even your most faithful followers are getting
increasingly restless.
jiri
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