OpenEuphoria

Re: For Robert Craig

• Posted by Sabal Mike <MikeS at NOTATIONS.COM> Nov 14, 2000
• 388 views

First, welcome to Euphoria.  I can understand your English, so it's definitely
not bad.  Many people on this list speak English as other than a native language,
so don't let that distract you from contributing.  For my company, we have
several programs we use that are written in Euphoria.  As the main programmer, I
find the interpreted program to be a major benefit in quickly making fixes; and
as long as the users only have to double-click the icon, they don't know the
difference.

If I were going to distribute these programs outside the company, I would have 2
options:  I could use the bind.ex utility included with the registered version of
Euphoria, or I could use one of the Euphoria to C translators and compile the
program into an EXE.  For more information on registering Euphoria and on the
translators, go to www.rapideuphoria.com.

Michael J. Sabal

>>> Aku <aku at INBOX.AS> 11/14/00 08:29AM >>>
first, sorry for my bad english.

euphoria is not very popular and no many euphoria programmers. there
are very small number of commercial programs or free program that are
popular written in euphoria. because people do not want distribute
their program written in euphoria because it is interpreted and user
will get problem executing the programs because user have to execute
"c:\program files\my program\exw.exe c:\program files\my
program\something.exw" in example for windows once the program is
installed. although the command above can be executed easily by
making a shortcut in start menu using the program's installer, but
the program's installer can not easily distributed because it is not
an .exe file and user must do the command line similar like above.

so, maybe you should give unregistered user *a* program (not two or
more) that  1. pack all include file *and* 2. shroud *and* 3. encrypt
*and* 4. bind to an .exe file. just that, no any other option such as
just do number 1, 2, dan 3 without 4, etc. just convert .ex, .exw, or
.exu file to a single exe and hide the source code. you can get
profit by selling the registered version with 300-lines limit
removed, profile, shroud, etc and the translator.

with distributable exe file using euphoria i believe euphoria
will be very popular and better than any other language.

thanks very much for your attention and i hope you agree.