Rob fixed a Euphoria leak? He should ADD a Euphoria leak!
Heh?
Well, errm....
Yeah.
Rob just announced that he fixed a memory leak in
Euphoria for Windows.
That's great!
..
For Rob!
Because we have to wait untill version 2.3 ALPHA
untill
we get a fixed version.
So what should Rob do to distibute new features to Eu
and fix bugs and all WHILE he implements them?
Simple!
Every once in a while, he leaks an update patch.
A small program that sticks some new machine code in
an executable file. You can generate patches
on-the-fly by using l33t h4x0r tools :P
I once had this hacking tool that takes two programs
as input, the old one that needs to be patched, and
the new one that has the new features/bug fixes.
It then outputs a .com program that will patch any old
file to have the new features/bug fixes.
It just writes out the differences between the old
program and the new program to an old program.
Sure we'd have a lot of different patches floating
around, but hey, that's not so bad.
Atleast Rob can post bug fixes as patches immediatly
after he fixes them.
Note that pacthes would be usefull for the full
version of the interpreter only, the PD version can
always be uploaded with any bug fixes.
I've got the feeling though that Euphoria will have to
get a palpitation->tachycardia->arrest effect soon,
ie. it will have to pause for a long time without
moving along, and then after a while (Palpitation),
when Robert relaxed for some time and thought about
Euphoria long enough, he implement a long chain of
inhancements and language features (tachycardia), and
finally he leaves euphoria as it is then to be
Standard Euphoria, and never add any new features to
it (arrest).
In the mean time, we could make our own enhancements
to Euphoria, if Rob A. would release the source to
ECW.lib , B. would implement an opensource portable
Euphoria like Python, JavaScript or VB For
Applications wich can be embedded and/or enhancent, C.
do both.
Because, heaven forbids, if something might happen to
Robert Craig today, it's over with Euphoria.
You might think of me as being cruel, but this is
actually part of Commerce, if you took it in
HighSchool (I dropped out and whent to work at L&H as
a whizzkid, so I dunno that much about Trade&Commerce
officially).
You think if Bill Gates died while coding Windows 95
half-way through it would never be realsed and
Microsoft would go bancrupt?
Offcourse not, because Bill Gates (offcourse) didn't
code Windows 95, a team of tens of thousands of
programmers did. If one died, MS would hire a new one.
Who's gonna hire a new Robert Craig down at RDS?
Exactly.
Allthough I'm quite positive Junko would release the
source to Euphoria, that's not the point.
If RDS had stocks, no one would buy them JUST because
of this *one* reason.
I know having the responsibility of having to code
everything yourself while the clock is ticking, the
customers are waiting and nagging, and asking for new
things even when you're still implementing the old
requests, will eventually beat you down to the floor
with a bad case of anxiety/panic dissorder,
palpitations, tachycardia, high blood pressure and
insomnia.
It took 4 years of living the life Robert has lived
since the release of Euphoria to make my heart stop
beating 7 times, and I'm 17 years old!
That's why I sing:
"and make a mess of my rest by thinking
computer codations and spewing out lines of
assembly the stress is making my heart blow
in pieces out off my chest making others feel
blessed with a job where they do their best
and rest while the boss is out to visit his crest"
in my song "The Way I Spam".
Rob lived like this for 8 years (2001-1993 = 8), and
who knows how much stress he had when going to
college. Getting a master's in CS ain't a cakewalk, ya
know?
All I ever had was an A+ degree and an MCP (Guinness
Book Of World Records: Youngest Employed Computer
Programmer: Michele Rocco Smeets, Age 15, L&H.
Youngest MCSP: Michele Rocco Smeets, Age 16. The next
release of the book has this, I sent it to their web
site three months ago.).
I dropped out of school cos I was good for two things;
1. Beating the crap out of 21 year old seniors.
2. Sleeping in class because I spent the day and night
coding.
When people saw me they always thougt I Was;
A. A drugs dealer. (Hey! Psst! You like, have some
materials for me? My like, friend said you look like
you have some.)
B. A pimp. (How much? .. That's your girlfriend?
Sorry, sorry, sorry pall, sorry...)
C. A gangster. (I'm sorry but I'm going to ask you to
leave the store.)
D. A vampire. (Woaah! You like, don't like light, do
you?)
E. A maffioso. (Please let me see what you have
beneath the long leather coat. Oh, in that case, it's
allright. I thought you had a shotgun under there.)
But no one, NO ONE, would ever think of me as a
computer programmer.
People still go like: "WHAT?? WOAHHH!! Ain't that
like, totally not your style man?".
I used to be a street fighter and "Strongest guy in
the school", and now I'm a computer programmer that
has more books on ANSI C, object oriented, structered
programmer, and game design, than porno mags.
I can't help it..
That's why they call me The Programmer With An
Attitude.
But enough about me.
Robert just can't go on like this...
Sooner or later, he's gonna get a burn out just like
me.
It's a known fact that computer programmers can't work
for more than ten years or else; A. Because crazy. B.
Become DEAD.
I didn't believe this theory at first, untill I did
become crazy (well... "emotionally disturbed").
Not sleeping for 72 hours in a row because you're
working on some code...
Waking up at 8, go to school, come back home, start to
code untill 8 in the morning, go to school again, etc.
Get up at 6, drive 160 miles to get to work (I live in
Limburg, L&H HQ is in West Flanders), code untill 5,
drive 160 miles home, code untill 4, sleep for 2
hours, repeat....
I cracked down one day at L&H, and they had to bring
me to the hospital.
I got an extreme panic attack with severe
hyperventilation, because of this life style, and
drinking coffee and Red Bull to keep me going, etc.
What I'm saying is, Robert should do what he wants to
do and take it slow for a while...
After the 1.0 translator release, and the 2.3
interpreter release (tip: make it version 3.0), we
should realy let him be and find ways to enhance Eu
ourselves.
How many people go bug Linus to add new features to
Linux? Or go bug the mathematic university of
Amsterdam
to create a Python To C translator?
Exactly.
A community of people work on these products, and
enhance it. Some still sell official releases (RedHat,
Corel, etc.) but the majority of code is written by
enthousiastic users.
So if we ever see an Open Euphoria of some kind, even
if it's just the translator packed with the source to
the libraries, we'll be on our way to live on our own,
giving Rob a break.
Mike The Spike
PS. Since I brought up my song, The Way I Spam (parody
on The Way I Am by Eminem), here's the full lyrics for
those interested. It explains the things I told you
about my life.
"
The Way I Spam
By Mike The Spike
Now sit back with a sixpack and listen
to my voice reflect upon reasons
of why they adore me and why they
ask me for more when I say their ass is so white
as the accent I use to rape every student
in class and make a mess of my rest by thinking
computer codations and spewing out lines of
assembly the stress is making my heart blow
in pieces out off my chest making others feel
blessed with a job where they do their best
and rest while the boss is out to visit his crest
and the rest you can guess is a
mess made by little pale students who think they
know best while their mothers come running with a
kleenex wiping their snotty nose thinking I'm just a
poor dropout gansta from Belgium at best.
But I am whatever I say I am,
if I'm not, you better pray I am.
Every Lamer in Newsgroups, everyday I spam.
Outlook won't even mail my Spam.
But I spam whoever I say I spam,
if I wouldn't, then why would I say I spam,
Every Lamer in Newsgroups, everyday I spam.
I dunno it's just the way I Spam.
Sometimes I feed people things that will
bother even a serial killer on probation
but I don't feel like I do things that
make people use the gun they have stored
and pierce through their skulls just
to make me feel ignored while others
make peace with my gore and storm in my
house through the window asking for more
causing me to restore the fame wich
I made on the net by making even
toddlers wet with my claims of starting
a fire while every victim is sleaping
in bed with a fresh turd on their head
saying I led to destruction and chaos
raping the language made by people <hint *EU* hint>
that can't do a thing without their nannies in red
making everything go away asif blood isn't red
and making the bed of the women I met
while shaving my eyelids and OD'ing on a med.
But I am whatever I say I am,
if I'm not, you better pray I am.
Every Lamer in Newsgroups, everyday I spam.
Outlook won't even mail my Spam.
But I spam whoever I say I spam,
if I wouldn't, then why would I say I spam,
Every Lamer in Newsgroups, everyday I spam.
I dunno it's just the way I Spam.
I'm so sick 'n tired of breastfeeding
kids trying to make a reputation by
saying they are me and making stupid
quotations I coughed up in class during
masturbation and making the newsgroups
or forums unsafe by stating I lie about
my roots and I ain't from Belgium and I can't
tell the truth because I was raised in
a hood with people handing out food to
the homeless and gansters that they try to sooth
cos they didn't use as much of their brains as they
could
and saying I'm not realy strong
and can't write a rap song
cos I do not belong in the world of the
children that never had to worry about
little ends meeting long and starving because
they are poor and can't eat the foods they request
and they never had people that longed to molest
the innocence youth brings to sibblings and the rest
of the people that think they know best.
But I am whatever I say I am,
if I'm not, you better pray I am.
Every Lamer in Newsgroups, everyday I spam.
Outlook won't even mail my Spam.
But I spam whoever I say I spam,
if I wouldn't, then why would I say I spam,
Every Lamer in Newsgroups, everyday I spam.
I dunno it's just the way I Spam.
"
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