Re: What's holding Euphoria back ?
>Getting it wider acclaim, especially in the classroom, is the first step
>forward. It may be a slow process but the user base does appear to
>widening.
The problem with the 'big' customers, is, I think, that it has no name. Say
company X has to write some code for eh.. say a
telephone company (y2k related, for example) .. then what would happen, if they
even choose to do so in Euphoria ? The 'client'
will say, 'no way' .. because no body knows Euphoria, and they would be tight up
to company X for future support, or eventually
need a rewrite in a completely new language.
Thats one of the bottle necks. So, people just knowing the name, is crucial.
Watch a few commercials, and you'll notice they
arent really saying anything, except that one word that they want you to
remember. They emphasize it, you only know the name of
the product, you almost never remember the contents of the rest of the
'message'. You could call it brainwashing, but thats
simply why Java did make it in a very short time.
But there's more. For new unknown language to survive there have to be a number
of problems, where they really set the current
crowd apart. So, that, financially the choice for Euphoria would be big.
Java was platform independent and completely OO. THere was no other way to
program completely platform independednt in such a
high level safe way. And OO was pretty much a hype. Other than that, they kept
it as much C as possible so the jump wouldnt be
big for C programmers. It was simply a really smart strategy, the choice for
language features, the name, the fact they
everybody knew the name, cuz netscape and MS had to explain why we needed to
download another 10 mb browser update for the
latest futures. Esspecially this association with browsers is how they got that
little attention they wanted.
Ralf
And no there's nothing constructive in this mail, only explenoraty. I hate
marketing, and will not give any advise on how to
brainwash, other than: don't.
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