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- From: oortmers@fwi.uva.nl (Wouter van Oortmerssen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Frustrated Jolyon (was Re: E - Just say NO! (was Re: Visual E - New E Developer Tool))
- Date: 4 Apr 1996 05:35:39 +0200
- Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
- Distribution: world
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- >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 :-)
-
- One shouldn't be angry with this guy, since he simply is a bit
- frustrated with me as a person. He is the kind of person that is
- incapacitated to adapt to new things, and subsequently everytime he
- touches his E code and produces an unexpected result he starts
- yelling at everybody that will listen that the compiler is buggy.
- I've explained him his failures on dozens of occasions but somehow he
- seems to forget his apologies fairly quicky: confronting people with
- their incompetence can often make you into an enemy. Mind you, me
- and Paul Nolan (the _real_ programmer of PhotoGenics) did get a good
- laugh out of him.
-
- A hammer is a powerful tool, unless you are like Jolyon and keep
- hitting yourself on the head with it.
-
- E is not a perfect language and EC not a perfect compiler, 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.
-
- Wishing you all a lot of fun flaming everything that is not your
- favourite programming language or "new and unknown" in general,
-
- Wouter van Oortmerssen
- (author of Amiga E :)
-
- p.s.: Jolyon: an E registration is personal, so you're doomed to be
- the owner of it for life!
-
-