OpenEuphoria

Re: No one talking today ?

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Oct 24, 2005
• 540 views

Vincent wrote:
> 
> Al Getz wrote:
> > 
> > ZZZZZzzzzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz,
> > 
> > What, is everybody sleeping today or something?
> > No forum activity, until now that is 
> > 
> > Wake up and let's hear about your great programs!
> > 
> > 
> > Take care,
> > Al
> > 
> > And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!
> > 
> > My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
> > 
> 
> Believe it or not, EUforum is one of the most active programming related
> mailing
> list on topica. Most of them have an activity level of one or two messages per
> week; some even per month. EUforum on the other hand has just 470 subscribers
> (half of them are active) but an average of 20-30 messages per day. My guess
> is most others ditched Topica because it's unreliable.
> 
> After nearly 13 years of Euphoria, there are only 470 subscribers and only
> about
> 250 of them are active. That is depressing! We should have more like 25,000
> people not 250. There may be 1000's who are unactive, but we only really
> benefit
> from those who are active.
> 
> The Euphoria IRC chatroom has pretty much died too, there used to be alot of
> activity
> in the past with daily chat logs of 60-500+ KB in size. Now daily logs are
> around
> 3-20 KB with no activity other than joining & disconnecting.
> 
> Maybe we should go mention Euphoria in other programming forums and/or
> chatrooms,
> in an attempt to lure more people here! 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Vincent
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> 

Hi there Vincent,

Yeah wierd.  Some of the programmers i've talked too just consider it
another "Pascal-like" language so i guess it doesnt appear to be
anything special.  That's usually all they know about too, none of
the details.
Of the people that do pick up on Eu i think they usually stick with it.
I've also read that people tend to stick more with the languages they
already know, so if they learn something else first there's less of
a chance they will pick up on Eu or even another language like this.
Thing is, it's not all related to the quality of the language as in how
good it really is, it's partly other things too.  I guess it helps to
have libraries that work well too without any bugs (or few).


Take care,
Al

And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!

My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"