1. website// Home Page Promo Text
- Posted by _tom (admin) Jun 09, 2016
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Here is a proposal for updating the intro text on the home page.
- I'd like to bundle Euphoria, OpenEuphoria, Phix, (where is Orac?) together to emphasize that there is a lot going on and that OE is not just an isolated language
- edited
- now refer to OpenEuphoria , and possibly Phix
RDS Euphoria and Orac now excluded
still need input from Pete to proceed
- What alternatives are there to Friendly..Flexible..Fast ?
- What is the best level of optimism and objectivity in describing OE?
- Can you come up with something completely different?
_tom
- Friendly...Flexible...Fast
- describes OpenEuphoria and our ally Phix. There are thousands of other programming languages, and you may have a dozen favorites, but only Euphoria will lift your spirits.
- Euphoria is Friendly.
- .
- Euphoria is Flexible.
- .
- Euphoria is Fast.
- .
2. Re: website// Home Page Promo Text
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jun 09, 2016
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- I'd like to bundle Euphoria, OpenEuphoria, Phix,
together to emphasize that there is a lot going on and that OE is not just an isolated language
What is Euphoria in that list refering to?
If it's unqualified, then the term usually refers to OpenEuphoria. It may refer to RDS Euphoria (the versions released before RDS Euphoria was released as open source). However, those older versions are moribound - RDS isn't developing them anymore and AFAICT no one else is either.
Likewise with PeteE's peu. (One of the earliest clones of RDS Euphoria.)
3. Re: website// Home Page Promo Text
- Posted by Spock Jun 09, 2016
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Here is a proposal for updating the intro text on the home page.
- I'd like to bundle Euphoria, OpenEuphoria, Phix, (where is Orac?)..
Orac is still in stalled development (and might never leave that state). Unlike Phix, no attempt was made to keep Orac highly compatible with Euphoria. So it is probably not likely to be that useful (for anyone else), except pedagogically.
Spock
4. Re: website// Home Page Promo Text
- Posted by petelomax Jun 10, 2016
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I'd like to bundle OpenEuphoria, and possibly Phix, together
still need input from Pete to proceed
I suspect that's a bad idea.
All the standard include files are incompatible for one thing, and there is no easy way to write documentation that adequately covers both.
Keep them separate, and install them in different directories. Anything else will just lead to confusion and mishap.
Obviously I have no problem with a link to Phix being put next to an OpenEuphoria link.
What alternatives are there to Friendly..Flexible..Fast ?
I would focus more on concrete examples, impressive screenshots, cool things that have been done with it...
Stress the positives, not the negatives of other languages, actually probably best to avoid any kind of language comparison.
Pete
5. Re: website// Home Page Promo Text
- Posted by petelomax Jun 10, 2016
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Unlike Phix, no attempt was made to keep Orac highly compatible with Euphoria.
That's now starting to get eroded. For instance the new pGUI makes heavy use of passing strings directly to c_func.