OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria needs more popularity!

• Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Sep 16, 2004
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Kat wrote:

> One hasto only look at PHP, PERL, C, or each new Basic that pops up each 
> day to see Euphoria is dragging tail in the mud. There are some mighty 
> useful features of Eu that i use in every program, and there are some very 
> frustrating drawbacks (and i do mean the occasional day i spend 
> concentrating on the syntax of Eu instead of the goal of the program, to get 
> around the lack of features which are present in other "LISPy" languages 
> (lua, prolog,scheme, etc)). It's sad some good programmers went to find 
> greener pastures.

Make that 'many' good programmers.
The problem is not that Euphoria lacks these features, the problem is 
that there are only two chances that useful features will ever be added:
slim, and none. That's what is so discouraging. 

I see no reason whatsoever why Rob should not just freeze Euphoria at 
2.4 (or 2.5), and then devote his time to implementing things which his 
customers have been asking for. Experiment a little, for cryin' out loud!
You're allowed more than one good idea per lifetime, you know.

Irv