Vincent, please read. (was Re: Why some ...+ FASTER PARSING than 2.4 !)
Vincent wrote:
>
> Before you get to excited, lets face it... RDS is *not* going to change the
> way Euphoria parses. We might get an additional small speed improvement in the
> next release, but in general, Euphoria won't ever parse quickly again on older
> systems.
*sigh* This is getting old.
How do you know Vincent? You always do this. You always claim that RDS won't
ever do something or must do something to survive. It is never like "RDS should
do this to boost sales", oh no, it's "there is no future for Euphoria without
feature X". Yes, in many cases that would be a nice feature but will it cause
Euphoria to die? Probably not, and even then you have no idea if it will or not
unless you secretly have some time machine you built in your garage and have seen
the Euphoria-less future. Or perhaps you are clairvoyant and can see into the
limitless future.
In regards to statments such as the above, again, how do you know? Are you
secretly psychicly linked to Rob's mind? For all we know Rob will find some bug
in the fontend that will speed up execution by 50% or maybe he reads some paper
on multi-threaded parsing or he reimplements the frontend in C. You have no idea
if he will or not so stop speaking for RDS. Will this happen? Probably not, but
again you have no idea.
Now, do I think Rob should do more with the language? Of course I think he
should, there's so much room for improvement in the language (I've actually
measured how much a foreach statement would speed up my coding and it'd be around
a 10% increase in code output for what I do). Now the keyword there is "think",
it is my opinion not objective fact as many of your statements seem to try to
make themselves sound as if they are. Do I overly criticize Rob for not
implementing some feature I think is "necessary" (such as being a .NET language
or multi-threading)? Of course not.
I'm not saying you can't voice your opinion I just think your overly absolutist
criticism is unnecessary and quite possibly inaccurate. This is not meant as
hostile criticism of you or your opinions it's just that this seems to be quite
common coming from you and it really serves no purpose and can be quite annoying
to us that read the forum regularly.
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