OpenEuphoria

Re: What's Holding Euphoria Back

• Posted by Grape Vine <chat_town at HOTMAIL.COM> Feb 16, 1999
• 451 views

Please tell me if you think im wrong but the only thing holding E back
is the people who use it.....

Grape

>
>Intrigued by references to an existing E language I fired up my Search
>Engines and found that there were a lot of programming languagues out
>there which I had never heard of.
>
>I was more surprised by the number of 'established' languages I'd
>forgotten about which are not commonly used; Modula, Coral, Ada etc.
>
>All these are very credible languages with an established heritage but
>they are just not commonly used; C / C++, lately Java, and Visual Basic
>( from UK job ads it would appear ) are still the main languages in
>commercial use.
>
>So if those languages 'don't make the grade' what chance for Euphoria ?
>
>Looking at it dispassionately; there is nothing holding Euphoria back.
>
>What's stopping Euphoria being used along side C / C++ / Java / VB ?
>
>The same things which have prevented Pascal, Delphi and many other good
>languages from getting there as well.
>
>Exactly what that is is difficult to say; undoubtedly big money from MS
>and Sun have helped the languages they have backed, C itself is perhaps
>a little more difficult to explain, it would seem to be legacy and
>familiarity alone which has kept it rolling on - it's certainly not the
>best language out there ( although it does get the job done ).
>
>Unless there's some compelling reason to make the world's programmers
>suddenly want to use Euphoria; it is likely to remain as just another
>obscure language outside the mainstream.
>
>PS : If we can't rename Euphoria as E++, can we call it !E ( Not E ) ?
><big grin>


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