Re: Euphoria's Future
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,
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