Re: Database and language related information
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:35:21 +1300, Jiri Babor <J.Babor at GNS.CRI.NZ> wrote:
>Peeved? Sorry. It was a "backhanded compliment"! (Does anybody remember
Everett
>any more?) jiri
Backhanded "what" did you say Jiri. I'm still alive out here, but very busy
at the moment. At least you two are proving that it doesn't require my
presence to have a little minor irritability in this group. The only thing
wrong with this conversation is that any "positive comment" about any
language other than Euphoria seems to draw negative comments on the list.
The only reason that this defensiveness seems necessary is that our
esteemed author seems determined not provide the types of facilities that
most of these other budding languages seem to think necessary.
It is a choice. Whether it is a good choice remains to be seen. I vote for
an IDE and standard libs at least approved, if not maintained by the
author. I would also vote for open source and cooperative development, but
that seems to be another "foreign" concept, even with a Linux version at
hand. One man bands seem to have died out in the early part of this
century because better music could be made by groups cooperating together.
In the long run, this language will not survive unless it is carried
forward by a wider group and with more openness than now exists. The idea
of some ill event happening to Mr. Craig at this moment hardly can be
born. In addition, too much time is wasted trying to guess what was
"really" intended in some features of the language...since the documentation
is anything but definitive.
On the other hand, even with the loss of Mr. Dumer, some other contributors
have made some major advances in facilities for the language to use. I hope
that continues and provides some incentive to our authors to take the
future of this language more seriously.
Everett L.(Rett) Williams
rett at gvtc.com
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