Re: What's holding Euphoria back ?
Greetings to all,
Although I'm about a week late with this response, I would like to add =
my opinion to the discussion of the 'outside appearance of Euphoria'.
There have been a lot of complaints about the name, the web site, the l=
ogo etc. as being not serious enough. Other people would giggle or grin=
if you said your program was written in Euphoria.
But, let me ask you, was it a good program? Was it easier to write it i=
n Euphoria than in another language? Why else did you write it in Eupho=
ria?
If it's a good program, that does what it has to do, with a good user i=
nterface, who cares in what language it was written?
I think that you yourself as a programmer are looking to be taken serio=
us, independant of the language you're writing in. If people aren't tak=
ing you serious, is that because of yourself, the programs you produce,=
or the programming language they are written in?
Is the name really an issue? There are quite some serious programmers, =
most of them scientists, writing programs in 'Python'. The language is =
named after a British comic TV program. Very comic indeed, but totally =
weird, and not to be taken serious in the way you define the word.
I think I understand the message Robert Craig is giving to the world: I=
f you want to have fun programming, if you want to be simple, safe and =
sexy, use Euphoria.
The language itself should be taken very serious, just because it is fu=
n programming it, especially if you come from another language that's n=
ot that funny.
And to programmers that are making fun of Euphoria I would say: Go ahea=
d, keep on programming in your not-so-funny but very serious languages,=
and let us have a laugh when you struggle with undetectable bugs, memo=
ry leaks and the like all through the night.
And if you really want a new name for Euphoria, what about 'Ease&Fun', =
or something the like?
Regards,
Ad Rienks
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