OpenEuphoria

Re: What's wrong with Euphoria??? Newbie perspective...

• Posted by David <dcuny at lanset.com> Jan 23, 2005
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D. Newhall wrote:

> This I agree completely with almost everything you said. If the
> OpenEuphoria project had something usable I'd be fine but one of the
> reasons Perl and Python are so popular is because their open source
> and can be adapted to anything.

Euphoria is a niche language, much like Lua or Rebol. It's never going to go 
mainstream in the way that Basic and Pascal have, and that's not necessarily 
a bad thing.

I had started working on Yet Another Euphoria Clone earlier this year, until I 
came to my senses. I don't really think there's any demand for an Open Source 
version of Euphoria.

Who is clamoring for an Open Source version? Euphoria is virtually free, and I 
doubt there are many people who aren't using it on some principle about the 
licence.

People who are unhappy with Euphoria would generally like to have some aspect 
of the language change. For OpenEuphoria to serve them, it would make 
OpenEuphoria (or at least, programs they write that take advantage of those 
features) incompatible with RDS Euphoria. How long with that project last? 

If you're going to go through that much effort, you may as well go the entire 
distance, and write your own language from scratch. That's much more 
satisfying.

-- David Cuny