OpenEuphoria

Re: Q about other languages...

• Posted by Everett Williams <rett at GVTC.COM> Sep 27, 1999
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On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:48:07 -0400, Bernie Ryan <bwryan at PCOM.NET> wrote:

>On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 21:50:55 -0400, Everett Williams <rett at GVTC.COM> wrote:
>
>>Plus, C has had about a million things grafted onto it since it's
>inception.
>>And since most of these other languages view themselves as replacements or
>>heirs of C, that is what you get. Besides, having learned to read that
>awful
>>mess, you can then boast that you can program with a "real" programmers
>>tool...yuck! Euphoria appears, spiritually to be an heir of early COBOL
>more
>>than anything like C. Of course, we no longer have the infamous "DATA
>
>
>
>Everett
>   Just a reminder Euphoria is written in Watcom C\C++
>Bernie

And what, pray tell else could it have been written in that was available,
portable, and mature enough to base another language on? No particular
language has everything and most don't need everything. C/C++ have
everything by default whether you want it or not. Watcom has been around for
a long time in this business(as have I) and were fairly important in the
move toward meta-compilers when that was a hot item. They had a whole family
of languages that they were said to be moving towards a common meta-format.
UCSD was another big player in that area with their family of languages with
PASCAL as the center item.

And whoever it was that said that Euphoria was ANYTHING like LISP, I hope
was pulling my leg for the opportunity to put in a bad pun. I took a course
in LISP 30 years ago...and beyond being interpretive in nature...it is
wildly different from Euphoria. From what I can tell(and I know the pies are
headed my direction on this one..I prefer banana cream), Euphoria is less an
interpreter than it is a "compile and go" or "incremental compiler".  Some
of the concepts from LISP could certainly add to the power of Euphoria, but
that would take about ten pages, so I think I'll wait till somebody bites on
that idea before I expatiate.

Everett L.(Rett) Williams
rett at gvtc.com