OpenEuphoria

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

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Jan 24, 2005
• 544 views

On 24 Jan 2005, at 8:44, Jason Gade wrote:

> 
> 
> posted by: Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com>
> 
> <snip everything>
> 
> I don't understand the problem.  Euphoria is better than just Open Source --
> it
> is public domain.  You can do anything with it.  You can change the source,
> rename it, and sell it as your own product.  You can write your own backend or
> binder.  You can rename it.  By releasing the public domain version of
> Euphoria,
> Rob has relinquished all copyrights to that version.  That is what public
> domain
> means.
> 
> Like some users on here, you can add features that you think Euphoria should
> have and translate and compile it.
> 
> People seem to confuse end users of a program with developers.  If I wanted to
> distribute a Euphoria program without binding or translating it, I would
> bundle
> just the files I needed and use an installer.
> 
> If I wanted to create commercial programs, I would have no problem with
> purchasing the binder or translator.  The binder or translator are not
> required
> to run Euphoria programs, though.
> 
> Do Perl or Python have a similar functionality to binding or translating?
> 
> If you don't like it, don't use it.  There are other tools out there that meet
> your criteria for what makes a "good" newbie-friendly language.

Ditto, however........

Euphoria has qualities that could push it to the fore, in front of non-newbie 
languages, such as Lisp, Prolog, Scheme, Smalltalk. And still be as easy 
as a "newbie language". If only..... <sigh>. I am having problems running 
Matts ooeu at the moment, but if it runs, all new code i write may require 
Matts version (with Al's windows server, if i can fix it too. Al, see: 
http://Tiggrbox.info/temp/windows.jpg !! ) , instead of the official RDS
version.

Kat
PS: Speaking of OO, WinClass also dies before it opens with "Couldn't link 
to C function GetLongPathNameA" error.

PPS: I still wish RDS would verify all the required includes are in contributed 
zip files, and that they actually run their demos!