RE: Any DDJ articles on Eu?
- Posted by ernobe at msn.com
Jan 26, 2002
freeplay at mailandnews.com wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I too have been considering putting together an article about Euphoria
> and
> yes I have been thinking "maybe this is Rob's job" but now I'm thinking
> from a different tack:
>
> Fact One:
>
> Rob is way, way, way too busy doing Euphoria stuff to get into such
> "self
> promotion".
>
> Fact two:
>
> Promoting and spreading the word of Euphoria will be better received
> from
> happy users of the language (who have even paid for the full version)
> than
> from it's creator. I bought a Ford because a friend let me try his and
> I
> liked it - _not_ because Henry T. just said his cars were great. (No
> flames on the better or worseness of Fords please - it's an analogy 
.
>
> So my advice is submit as many articles as possible. I'll be working on
> mine for sure. I'm _always_ telling my friends and work associates
> about
> Euphoria. Recently we saw Euphoria beat the pants off UNIX based Perl
> in a
> particular benchmarked task which is great because I now have evidence
> that
> Linux Sys Admins (the unwashed masses at slashdot.org take note >
> should
> listen to.
>
> Euphoria makes programming sense - make everyone you know aware of this!
>
> Let's face it the public domain (i.e free, no cost, no charge) version
> of
> Euphoria is so blooming powerful as a standalone bit of freeware I am
> utterlly amazed that Euphoria isn't front page news on such download
> sites
> like www.davecentral.com - how can something this great be "free"?
> Simple,
> its bloody fantastic!!!
>
> Spread the word folks.
>
All considered, probably the best selling point of Euphoria is that it
inspires innovative and creative programming. The language gives so
much freedom to create, that one should have no excuses when it comes to
providing software that evidences its full capabilities. In particular
I'm thinking of how tasks which in other languages are considered too
time-consuming, can be programmed in machine code, and made coherent and
integral parts of the whole program, whereas in other languages it would
be so complicated to implement that it never gets done. We need to be
really informed of the challenges facing the programming community in
its everyday affairs, so that we may take up these and other discarded
projects and show how simple and effective their solution is in
Euphoria. Probably we can all mention ideas of projects which we
thought would be better done in Euphoria, and it would be a good idea to
keep track of these as we may soon find ourselves not only wanting to do
them but been asked for them.
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