1. VisualBasic 5.0 vs Euphoria
- Posted by Rafael Skovron <ballsy007 at YAHOO.COM> Jun 24, 1998
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I am learning both VBASIC and Euphoria at the same time. After reading the argument between Perl vs. Euphoria I came to the obvious question,"What's faster, VBASIC or Euphoria?". How are two languages compared for speed if code can be written in so many different ways. Do you compare them when solving a math problem, sorting sequences,etc...? Rafael For the marketing of Euphoria! _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
2. Re: VisualBasic 5.0 vs Euphoria
- Posted by Joe Phillips <bubba at TXWES.EDU> Jun 24, 1998
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I do develop in both as well. I find that Euphoria is much faster and smaller. It is really not fare to compare these two languages. VisualBasic is a complete development envirronment while Euphoria, although accompanied by development tools and add-ins, is a language. They both have their positive features that attract me. I have done some file i/o comparisons and found that Euphoria was faster. However, I do not do ANY gui programming in Euphoria. If I need gui, I use a GUI tool like Visual Basic, Powersoft, etc. As I have indicated in other emails,. I have to consider the entire life cycle of a project. What will it cost me to modify, etc. Will the code be re-usable. (However, I do find my evaluation of Euphoria code on this criteria is positive. ) I do not do any game programming, so the reasons for my choices are not related to the opinions of most other users of Euphoria. Also, Visual Basic is not very optimized. Do not use it for speed. I have mentioned in the past that a program must produce "results with maximum utility". In the real world that does not always translate to maximum efficiency. In fact, it might not always mean maximum benefit. This concept, which I barely remember, comes from economics. When does an additional investment not yeild an equal or greater return. Unfortunately, that's often translated, how bad can I do. I choose to look at it as, how can I provide the maximum satisfaction to the user while not decreasing the satisfaction of my superiors. (Yes, those two can often contradict!) That means I spend 30 minutes creating a gui interface that runs slower that Euphoria as opposed to hours of programming in Euphoria, hammering out syntax, etc. To the user, the gui interface is much more pleasing than a few less seconds to process a file. In fact, I often add visual components that are of no real value, and no real development time, just to be pleasing. (progress bars, changing mouse pointers, etc.) (Don't scoff you young, whipper-snappers. It pays the bills ! ! ) So, if I was sitting at home jamming out efficient routines, I would probably not use VB5 or any other windows gui environment. I would use ( non-registered ) Euphoria. By the way, what was it you were asking? I think I went just a little long. (This email was written in PERL) ( WIthout short-circuit logic) Joe Phillips, Assistant Director Information Technology Services Texas Wesleyan University 817-531-4284
3. Re: VisualBasic 5.0 vs Euphoria
- Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL> Jun 25, 1998
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Actually in some cases VB5 *is* faster. This is logical. All datatypes are known. No dynamic-anthing is required at run-time. It can and is compiled very efficiently. Take PowerBasic. It beats the crap out of *any* c-compiler. It simply produces the fastest code. However, VB is OO-s way too much and is a real memory-hog. Actually the multi-purpose controls are memory-hogs too. It can often do many things and need to check many things in run-time that you don't at all. Ralf
4. Re: VisualBasic 5.0 vs Euphoria
- Posted by Andy Kurnia <akur at DELOS.COM> Jun 25, 1998
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>Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:11:20 -0500 >From: Joe Phillips <bubba at TXWES.EDU> >Subject: Re: VisualBasic 5.0 vs Euphoria > >By the way, what was it you were asking? I think I went just a little long. >(This email was written in PERL) ( WIthout short-circuit logic) Er... explain
5. Re: VisualBasic 5.0 vs Euphoria
- Posted by Joe Phillips <bubba at TXWES.EDU> Jun 25, 1998
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At 05:33 PM 6/25/98 +0700, you wrote: >>Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:11:20 -0500 >>From: Joe Phillips <bubba at TXWES.EDU> >>Subject: Re: VisualBasic 5.0 vs Euphoria >> >>By the way, what was it you were asking? I think I went just a little long. >>(This email was written in PERL) ( WIthout short-circuit logic) > > Er... explain > It was a joke. You need to take a vacation. You've been talking with (to) Ralf too much. I think Ralf enjoys your little chats! Joe Phillips, Assistant Director Information Technology Services Texas Wesleyan University 817-531-4284
6. Re: VisualBasic 5.0 vs Euphoria
- Posted by Terry Constant <constant at FLASH.NET> Jun 25, 1998
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Joe Phillips wrote: > > >>By the way, what was it you were asking? I think I went just a little long. > >>(This email was written in PERL) ( WIthout short-circuit logic) > > > > Er... explain > > > It was a joke. You need to take a vacation. You've been talking with (to) > Ralf too much. I think Ralf enjoys your little chats! > Joe, Would it be more accurate to say that, when doing general programming in the Dos/Win95 world, PERL, when compared to Euphoria, is a joke? -- Terry Constant mailto:constant at flash.net http://flash.net/~constant