OpenEuphoria

RE: Block Commenting

• Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Aug 05, 2003
• 599 views

Ray Smith wrote:

> An IDE isn't going to make developing programs quicker if the 
> underlying language is missing features or libraries.  
> E.g. If you need to use a Web Services object in Euphoria, or connect
> to a database that no one has written a library for ... a good IDE 
> isn't going to be of much help.  

    But it is a BIG help when you do have all these things in
    libraries and you want to manage all those libraries.

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> So some tasks in WinDev are impossible as well :)

    ... and still it is regarded as a very professional development
    environment, capable of very stable and feature rich programs
    that are used in enterprises all over the world.

> The user base has a huge impact when much of the functionality 
> required comes from people other than the main developer.
> If you only had "Euphoria" that was downloaded from RDS to use, with
> no libraries from the archive etc ... Euphoria would be a bit of a 
> white elephant!!

    I must agree with that. It would mean that you have to write
    a lot of stuff yourself... as we did with WinDev (as there is
    only a small bit of auxilliary functions available in comparison
    with Euphoria).
 
> The user base has as much (if not more) impact on how successful 
> a language will be.  Especially for the small and open source 
> languages.

    The success of a language is also depending on the willingness
    of companies to addopt it for serious projects. And that is very
    much depending on how good the language can be integrated in
    a controllable workflow: read IDE 

Hans Peter Willems