E-Prime Stability

[Eric at ericwalden.net]

I agree that it is not that stable.  I had a new PhD ask about it and 
suggested that he learn Matlab.  Cut and paste is insane.  Movies are ... 
well today I filled at a survey about features in EPrime 3.0 and I told 
them they should fire the people who developed the movie modules and then 
sue them for industrial espionage because there is no way that programming 
that bad was a mistake.  Codec issues make it worse, but the underlying 
programming is awful.  Today it was telling me that a goto label that was 
there did not exist, which is strange not only because I cut pasted the 
name, but also because it had worker a few hours earlier and I had not 
changed anything.  Their documentation and online community is awful.  This 
group and, David McFarland in particular, are the only thing that makes it 
usable for complex things.

If you do stuff that is pretty standard and don't try to cut and paste it 
works OK, but I would say EPrime 2 is still in the beta stage and not 
really ready for release.

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