OpenEuphoria

Re: Newbies - a proposal

• Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Sep 22, 2004
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Kat wrote:

> Lemme try again.... if i don't see the howto of a language, an example of how 
> the words are used, and what the language words are, i won't bother to 
> download the language. Presto, no setup. I haveto be already interested in a 
> language to download a language with no online help, with all the docs in the 
> download/install package.

I agree 100%. The most important thing to me, and I suppose to many people 
who may be looking for a language, is to see what kinds of things can be 
done with the language, and what the code to do those things looks like.
(Something more complex than "hello world", since that looks the same in 
many languages.)

If what I see is uncluttered and makes sense, only then will I bother to 
download and install it (and work thru the setup hassles). 

Having some simple but real programs on view would also help people who 
have unreaslistic expectataions, such as what "easy" means when referring 
to programming. 

Irv