OpenEuphoria

Re: goto: it's conceded

• Posted by Kat <KAT12 at c?o?ahs.net> Jun 02, 2008
• 682 views

CChris wrote:
> 
> 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

Yeas, i would too. It would be like the olde days, same arguements, but
different decade.

Kat