OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria needs more popularity!

• Posted by Terry Constant <EUforum at terryconstant.com> Sep 16, 2004
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Rob,

You have done well. In summer 1998 I stopped using EUphoria
when I began developing for a company who provided a very
popular scripting language in the Win32 world. This year the
company was bought by a larger company on the west coast and I
ceased developing for them. I decided to come back to
Euphoria, which I had always liked. I was pleasantly surprised
how well all of my old routines continued to work after such a
long time. WELL DONE!.

Though I truly liked the scripting language that we (at the
company mentioned above) developed. In every release 3.2, 3.3,
3.4, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4, we broke some portions of
previous scripts. The improvements we made were nice, but
every release was a bit of a hassle for us and some customers.
Scripts written (except for the most simple and basic) in
1998, simply would not run in our releases in 2003-2004. The
fact that many of my old Euphoria scripts do run is a kudo for
RDS.

I began programming in 1967. I have HAD to make thousands of
changes in programs and scripts over the years because of
changes/improvements in languages. Though I understand the
perspectives of several people who have responded, I do want
to say that NOT having to change programs/scripts with every
release is a blessing that I appreciate. (Doesn't mean there
aren't some things I would like to have in the language. Just
saying that there is a blessing in slow stability that we
should not forget.)

One responder (I forget who) indicated that he/she was not so
much interested in fiddling with the interpreter source code
as much as working with a good language. I am in that boat. I
don't want to work in C. I want to work in Euphoria. So, to
me, Euphoria being stable and robust is important.

For practical reasons, I have finally started working almost
exclusively with MS OSes (not because I like them or MS).

In the current scripting world of MS, I would like to see very
robust and RDS provided OLE/ActiveX/COM abilities/routines. If
I had this one official addition in Euphoria, then my
abilities and communication with other tools would be
enhanced. (I would like to see Euphoria in WSH, but I don't
see a realistic way for you to do it.)

Also, I want to program/script in Euphoria. For me, source
code for an interpreter is of little interest. I am tired of
programming in C. I want to work in Euphoria. I want Euphoria,
the end product for me to use to be robust.

Just my two cents in this current thread.

Terry Constant