OpenEuphoria

Re: open source alternative

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Apr 30, 2001
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, rudy toews wrote:

> hi EveryOne,
> recently i heard open source was being considered.
> i believe open source would cause too many versions to be created.
> i think one version is much better at any one time.

I have to agree here. Given then large number of good suggestions for 
improvements that pass thru here, if source were available no doubt there 
would soon be a dozen versions of Euphoria, each implementing some, 
but not all of the improvements. The fragmentation would make it difficult 
to write a program that would run on all or most of these versions.

> i don't know how it would be implemented but an idea simmering in my 
> head is a common direction be set by using a flowchart(?). <snip>

Honestly, I think the task of managing a project like that would be more 
time-consuming than just writing the code all by one's self - as Rob 
has been doing. One thing we have to congratulate Rob on is the 
lack of real bugs in his code. I, for one, don't think that would be true 
if several people were working on it. 

Maybe what we need to do is find a way for Rob to devote more time
to the language.  Any ideas?

> Rob, thanks for starting Euphoria. i like it.
> and thanks for everyones contributions.

Regards,
Irv