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- From: crandall@mail.msen.com (Chad Randall)
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- Subject: Re: Frustrated Jolyon (was Re: E - Just say NO! (was Re: Visual E - New E Developer Tool))
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 13:13:38 GMT
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- Wouter van Oortmerssen (oortmers@fwi.uva.nl) wrote:
- :
- : >Jolyon Ralph (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
- :
- : >Good idea! As soon as we've converted all the old E code over, I'll
- : >happily give away my registered E compiler to the first person who can
- : >prove to me they're not going to do anything stupid, like try and write
- : >commercial software using it :-)
- :
- : ... Mind you, me
- : and Paul Nolan (the _real_ programmer of PhotoGenics) did get a good
- : laugh out of him.
-
- Why isn't Paul still working on Photogenics, then? Why'd they give the
- project to this bozo?
-
- : E is not a perfect language and EC not a perfect compiler,
-
- True enough. When are we going to get multiple hunks, and
- Close()/Expunge() procedures for .library creation??? I'd pay an extra
- 40$ for these, honest.
-
-
- : but apart
- : from the fact that it will give syntax errors if you feed it C code,
- : I see no reason why anyone couldn't make professional applications
- : with it, worse, I fear it has many features to support large scale
- : programming, unlike some languages I know.
-
- E exception handling and OOP are way better than C/C++.
-
- Chad "Iconian" Randall
- "I use 'E' and I'm proud of it!"
-