OpenEuphoria

Re: Newbies - a proposal

• Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> Sep 22, 2004
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> > 1.  "Noobs"???  I think "Newby" would be better understood?
> 
> Or newbie.

Yes, I'd say Newbie is the correct spelling

> I consider how to use the language, and what it can do, to be far more
> important than how to set up to run it. Setup is a one-time event, a easy
> setup on a(nother) language that cannot do anything isn't worth the read.

That is true... However if someone can't even set the development
environemt up, they're not going to get to programming. Rob, I really
think you ought to automate this a bit more...


> 4) there is so much capability in the libs that is not in the Eu as delivered
> by
> RDS, such as all win/nix gui stuff, the entire strings lib collection, file
> i/o/management using winapi, etc, which should be pointed to soon after the
> newbie is introduced to the include statement.

That is quite true... one issue with that is the lack of documentation
that some of these things suffer from. Not sure what's the best way to
get around it...

-- 
MrTrick