Re: the fate of a euphorian
Jiri and other,
>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.
I agree with everything but the windows stuff. I don't program
in windows much but I do recognize it as a useful OS. Yes it
has some problems, lots to be exact, but it is still, I believe,
the most used OS in the world. Windows support is a plus for
any language.
Yes, MTS has an unpleasant personality. To get away from that
subject as quickly as possible I will address your last item:
"general apparent lack of progress on Robert's part"
Now, I wouldn't have said it quite that way. Robert HAS
progressed in his development of Euphoria, just not in the
direction that most people seem to want to go. The translator
is a good idea but how it got precedence over the addition of
useful syntax, that discussed often, is beyond me.
Someone else mentioned that RDS is a small company (2
developers?) The thing is, if Rob was to hire more people to
help develop the language, he would undoubtably need to raise
the price of the product. Personally I wouldn't mind paying a
bit more to upgrade Euphoria. Say $70.00 US wouldn't be a
problem to me if I got all my wishlist items. ;) Heck that's
still cheap compared to other languages.
>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.
Let me add mine (in order of importance):
assignment on declaration for variables
vertical slicing
sequences as subscripts
subscription of expressions
subscript shortcuts
later,
Lewis Townsend
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