<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 28, 2011, at 3:01 AM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font><br>It might be interesting to run some sort of poll to see what currently<br>unsupported areas people care about most, particularly the people who<br>would say "I'd like to use Eiffel but I cannot because it does not<br>have library support for <whatever>."<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>You might want to split such a poll in several groups — one for hackers/enthusiasts/early adopters and one "for the average programmer".</div><div><br></div><div>Because the results will be quite different.</div><div><br></div><div>The first group would probably want something like worker pools, various protocol implementations, control structures or what not.</div><div>The second group would want image manipulation libraries on par with imagemagick, full PCRE support (with unicode!) and a unified database driver a la JDBC.</div><div><br></div><div>Some of these choices may overlap, but not all of them.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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