RE: Euphoria 2.4 Official Release
- Posted by gertie at visionsix.com
Jul 08, 2003
On 8 Jul 2003, at 11:45, Ray Smith wrote:
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> Robert Craig wrote:
> >
> > Yes, 10 years have gone by since Euphoria 1.0 was released,
> > and I'm still working on this thing.
> >
> > I released 1.0 by uploading it to a
> > local Toronto BBS (Bulletin Board System - remember those?),
> > using my 2400 Baud modem. In those days very few people
> > had even heard of the Internet. There was no Web to speak of.
> > To distribute Euphoria better, I bought a 14,400 baud modem,
> > and started uploading to a bunch of other BBS's
> > around North America. Eventually I put it on Compuserve,
> > GEnie and the fledgling America Online.
> >
> > 10 years isn't old by programming language standards.
> > C is about 30, Fortran almost 50. Hardware sure
> > advances a lot faster than software.
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> Congratulations on the milestone. It's an amazing feat especially
> as you retrospect at the state of Internet 10 years ago.
> It's a real credit to you that you have developed and supported
> a language such as Euphoria over such a period of time.
> Well done.
I agree. I myself, after hand editing a 100,000 word dictionary, beginning in
1992, with classes, descendants and predecessors, grammar, semantic
info, for machine use, am calling it quits. It's been translated (not well) into
24 languages, occupying nearly 2 gigs. There are dailey news archives going
back 2 years, averaging 250 articles per day, for examples of language use,
a bit over 2 gigs. There's 5 years of irc logs in assorted channels. There is a
hand munged database of assorted datum, about 3 gigabytes of it. But
unlike Euphoria, i'm alone. And i can't make use of it on the internet without
the reverse proxy. Next reboot, i'm pulling those harddrives and putting them
on the shelf. It's clear anything i do is not worth any one else's time.
Kat
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