OpenEuphoria

Re: Broken Euphoria

• Posted by Ryan W. Johnson <ryanj at fluidae.com> Sep 28, 2006
• 1224 views

Vincent wrote:
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> Lets see...
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> Ryan Johnson: His own FluidAE scripting language based on Eu.
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> Thats eight people who may just take the source and abandon RDS Euphoria. 
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> Regards,
> Vincent

Just to be clear so there aren't any misunderstandings...

I am very happy to hear the Euphoria will become open source for 2 main reasons:
1) it will not die when RDS does, it will still be available as long as people
keep using it, and 2) FluidAE is open source, so it is good that the language it
is written in will also be open source.

I have no intention of ever creating a new fork. I fully support Rob's official
euphoria and overall i'm happy with its progress. If FluidAE becomes popular, i
hope it also causes euphoria to become more popular as well.

FluidAE will have it's own internal scripting language, which will basically be
Euphoria syntax, but it *might* have some minor modifications to the syntax,
specifically for simpler interfacing with modules within FluidAE. My intention is
_not_ to create a new, "better" language, but to simply make it easier to program
applications _for FluidAE_. The main modification i will make for the scripting
language will be to allow multiple programs to be executed simultaneously,
controlled by a built-in task manager. This wouldn't normally work because there
could be I/O conflics between programs. But, in FluidAE, applications never do
any direct I/O using built-in routines (such as puts, gets, etc.) Applications
only interface with Module apis to do what they need to do.

FluidAE itself, and FluidAE Modules will all be written in 100% official
euphoria. Infact, they will be left as raw source files. The (open source)
euphoria interpretor will simply be included with the FluidAE installation, along
with the necessary libraries.

By the way, even though i haven't worked on FluidAE for months, the project is
still alive, just incase anyone was starting to wonder... 

~Ryan W. Johnson

Fluid Application Environment
http://www.fluidae.com/

[cool quote here, if i ever think of one...]