OpenEuphoria

Re: What's holding Euphoria back ?

• Posted by Raude Riwal <rauder at THMULTI.COM> Feb 05, 1999
• 478 views

I understand for E . and occasionally agree.
But why "++" ? does it mean classes,methods,...and structures ?
Oh, not again...
...maybe E**  (it's not beautiful)
Seriously, how do you feel the name Euphoria? Here in france, we don't
matter with names, because
they almost *never* mean anything. fortran? pascal? C? algol? lisp? that are
just letters put together.
The difference is the reputation : some languages are *known* to be serious.

Euphoria is greek, like many scientific or technical stuff; the meaning
suggests it's fun (isn't it?); it
sounds more or less like Eudora, which is well-known.
If the name makes people laugh: it's the right name. Don't name it
Lachrimae.
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From: Bown, John
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: What's holding Euphoria back ?
Date: Thursday 4 February 1999 19:13

It was suggested [ apologies to whoever as I don't have the original ]
that the name Euphoria is one of the problems, not sounding serious
enough.

There is one, and only one, way to give Euphoria credibility in the
current world of computer science, rename version 2.1 to ...

E++

<<hugely wide grin>>