1. Re: Portability
Everett Williams wrote:
> I get this odd feeling that you were just waiting for
> somebody to ask that question.
No, if you check the archives you'll see that we're treading old ground.
> Till I have done some reading, further comment
> would be useless except to say that I am looking
> for a straightforward, "FoxPro" level interface
> suitable for business applications without regard
> to games or fancy graphics.
Both of the GUI libraries (VEL and Win32Lib) should work just fine, then. I
am working on a portable library (called Llama) that currently runs under
Win32 and Linux (using GTK), but it's fairly low on my priority list right
now.
> One way of improving the portability of a lot of things
> in Euphoria would be a simple rule not allowing the usage
> of things like routine_id(), peek, or poke in the mainline
> of code.
I don't think most people care about their code being portable. They code in
DOS (or Windows), and write applications for those environments. There are
no 'perfect' libraries, and they always lag behind the cool features the
people want to implement in their programs.
-- David Cuny
