OpenEuphoria

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