OpenEuphoria

RE: fixed windows

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at yahoo.com> Aug 06, 2003
• 391 views

Christian.CUVIER at agriculture.gouv.fr wrote:

<lots of snips>
 
> Actually, apart from integration in Office apps, I don't see many 
> reasons to use VB rather than Eu (oh yes, the debugger). Yet the 
> user base for Eu is tiny compared to VB's. Guess why?

In fact, you can't even use that (Office integration) as an argument any 
more.  It's really pretty simple to Automate Office apps using EuCOM 
(see the archives).

> Matt recently remarked that the Eu user base seems mostly 
> interested by GUI building and hardly anything else. Since this is 
> not your main use for EU (/me not mine either), you don't get 
> listened too much on this list.
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I think you must be referring to the post about the MicroEconomy.  I 
don't think I'd draw this conclusion.  It's more that virtually every 
app uses some sort of GUI, therefore, *everyone* needs them, and they 
are very popular.  It's just a lowest common denominator across most 
programmers.  OTOH, not everyone needs an elegant little library for the 
Simplex Algorithm, but I just can't help myself but to download and vote 
for cool things like this.

Matt Lewis