OpenEuphoria

Re: open source alternative

• Posted by Ted Fines <fines at macalester.edu> Apr 30, 2001
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I'll third that (not an open source Euphoria, that is).  I like Rob's idea 
of selling or licensing out some of the source for development, though. 
That will open up a lot of possibilities.

But open source?  Tell you what, if you want an open source Euphoria, write 
one yourself.

But at an incredibly reasonable $59 for the full version on all three 
platforms, I have no problem with it not being open source.

--On Monday, April 30, 2001 8:53 AM -0500 Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> 
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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>> 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>
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> 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.
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> Maybe what we need to do is find a way for Rob to devote more time
> to the language.  Any ideas?
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>> Rob, thanks for starting Euphoria. i like it.
>> and thanks for everyones contributions.
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> Regards,
> Irv
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