OpenEuphoria

Re: Resurection of routine_id forward referencing

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Sep 20, 2006
• 667 views

cklester wrote:
> 
> ONTOPIC: I hope RDS chooses the BSD license. I also hope we always have a
> standard or official version of the code. (Is it possible to fork other
> open source languages, like PHP or Python? I only ever hear about one version
> of those.)
> 
> I don't care about the goto or forward referencing issues. But I do care when
> somebody tries to convince me that a hole in the ground is a lake. :D
> 
> -=ck
> "Programming in a state of Euphoria."
> <a
> href="http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/">http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/</a>

You can fork PHP or Python or Ruby or whatever. The thing is is that each of
those languages has momentum behind them and most open-source development is a
strict meritocracy. You would have to prove something better about your fork than
the original.

Then again, changes could just as easily be folded back into the main project.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to fork open-source projects.

--
"Any programming problem can be solved by adding a level of indirection."
--anonymous
"Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection."
--M. Haertel
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare
j.