OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria for the masses

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Nov 18, 2005
• 475 views

Kenneth Rhodes wrote:
> 
> OOPS... left out the link to an article about the "one laptop per child
> project":
> 
> <a
> href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69615,00.html?tw=rss.TOP">http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69615,00.html?tw=rss.TOP</a>
> 
> Ken Rhodes
> SuSE Linux 9.3
> 100% MicroSoft Free

I've read a bit about this on Ars Technica and on OSNews and it sounds like a
great project.

The problem that I see is that they are only including Free software with the
machine. Now I know that I have argued here that Euphoria *is* free, but it is
kind of a chicken and egg problem

* The source code to the interpreter is free, but doesn't work unless you use
the non-free interpreter
* Or translate it with the non-free translator

Which may or may not be a problem. Note I'm using "Free" as in Libre, not as in
no-cost.

Even though Euphoria is an awesome language, and looking at some of the
luminaries of computer science that are involved in this, I somehow doubt that
they would be impressed. I think they are leaning towards a smalltalk-like or
squeak-like language.

Ok. I just read the Wired article. Very good. Negroponte does mention Squeak,
Logo, and Scratch(??) in it. He also mentions C, which should have the commercial
appeal that the interviewer is talking about.

It would be very cool to get Euphoria on these things and give it a healthy dose
of publicity, but I'm sure there are dozens of other software packages that
authors would like to have included, but there wouldn't be space for them all!

Of course, with networking, they'd be able to download it. Assuming Rob or
someone could find a way to port Euphoria to the machine.

Okay, so I think I'm starting to ramble so I'll just hit the Send Now...

--
"Actually, I'm sitting on my butt staring at a computer screen."
                                                  - Tom Tomorrow

j.