Re: Euphoria's Future
- Posted by Meiven Angelica <ameiven at yahoo.com> Jan 17, 2001
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Hi there Ray !! I find your poll to be a very good initiative, it just might get Robert Craig to implement these features we have all longed for for a very long time. I think the feature that we would all be most interested in, would be a new addition to the RDS staff. Someone that can program in both C and Euphoria extremely well. And has a better "marketing feel" than Robert. Someone that will listen to what we want and implement it. In accordance to Robert's standards of the Euphoria language, off course. The reason for languages such as Python, Tcl and Java to succeed in a very small amount of time, is because they aren't proprietary. Euphoria is more of a product, and not a language. A Visual Basic, perhaps, without the neat features. I'm not saying Robert should release the source code to Euphoria, that he wouldn't do anyways, and it would cause a bunch of Euphoria implementations that run one program, and a bunch of other implementations that don't. The Euphoria source code is not portable across platforms eighter. What he *could* do, however, would be to assemble a small OpenEU, or Portable Euphoria, which would be a subset of the interpreter, yet in portable ANSI C source code for anyone to download and embed. Why would this be beneficial to RDS? Imagine Euphoria-enabled browsers using RDS source, games that use Euphoria as scripting language, EuScript as a way to write macros for commercial programs, etc. Euphoria would gain popularity, yet to be able to create *real* proffesional Euphoria programs, once would have to buy the RDS interpreter/translator package. It wouldn't matter if this limited Euphoria interpreter would be slower, or have less features as the RDS full product, it is open, it is free, it is extensible and it is embeddable. Robert, Junko, please consider this. It would be giving us the source in the sense of giving us the ability to do what we wanted the source for in the first place, yet keeping the source and the language to yourself. Angelica, -XXX- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/