OpenEuphoria

Re: voting on GOTO

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at a?riculture.g?uv.fr> Jun 07, 2008
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Euler German wrote:
> 
> > On 6 Jun 2008 at 10:38, Lucius L. Hilley III wrote (maybe snipped):
> 
> > Sure, lets just keep adding keywords to accomplish the task instead of
> > reorganizing the current ones in an elegant and explanatory way.
> > 
> > After all, how many keywords does euphoria need before it simply
> > scares newbies to death?  Wow, I thought we were going for sexy and
> > simple.
> > 
> >     Lucius L. Hilley III - Unkmar
> > 
> 
> Keywords don't scare newbies. Dogmas do. Why I'm not amazed this 
> community didn't grow in more than 5 years? Maybe I should quote 
> David Cuny (I hope you don't mind, David): "...I'm not sure that my 
> hopes for Euphoria match most of those using it." and also of his 
> brew: "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."
> 

Exactly why it's by sheer luck I'm still around.

CChris

> Who's scaring who? And David Cuny is certainly NOT a newbie. ;)
> 
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