Re: goto: it's conceded
- Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agricul?ure.gouv.fr> Jun 02, 2008
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David Cuny wrote: > > Jeremy Cowgar wrote: > > >> OK, back to lurking. > > > > But why? Stay active > > There are a couple reasons. The main one is time: I've got too much on my > plate as it is. > > The second is that I'm not really that skilled of a C coder. It's easy to > write things in your own style - it's much harder to figure out something > that someone else wrote, and stay with their coding style and philosophy. I > > say this having looked through the Euphoria source code, and having > admiration for those who are currently maintaining it. > > A third is that I'm not sure that my hopes for Euphoria match most of those > > using it. If you look at wxBasic, you'll see my attitude toward language > features: if I think it's cool and useful, and I can do it, I'll throw it in. > > I wrote my pre-processor and Py as examples of what I thought Euphoria could > > become. They ended up looking a lot like Python Lua. I'm not sure my idea of > > Euphoria would make many current users happy. > > I'd also endlessly promote wxWidgets being part of the GUI version of > Euphoria. I think there should be a command line version, and a GUI version > > that's officially supported. > > Think of it: Even more posts to the already busy EuForum. Only it's me, so I'd > > be posting for better built-in support of hash tables, strings, and a HUGE > (but enormously useful) GUI library as part of the official release of > Euphoria. > > Me, posting the same darned things. Again and again and again. The mind reels > > at the signal to noise ratio. > > Most importantly, I don't use Euphoria on a regular basis, so I'm not current > > on the what's going on. > > I can't even can't keep current of everything on this forum. It's nice to see > > a lot of useful activity here, and depressing to see so much bickering and > name calling. > > Anyway, if I think I've got anything useful to add, I'll be sure to do it. In > > the mean time, it's good to see progress with Euphoria. > > -- David Cuny > > I'll be a likely happy user of your ideas. CChris