OpenEuphoria

Re: What's holding Euphoria back?

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Jan 31, 1999
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On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:05:41 -0500, Robert Craig <rds at EMAIL.MSN.COM> wrote:

>Irv Mullins writes:
>> 1. Lack of structures
>
>This has been discussed at length. There might be some
>support eventually, but it has to be something elegant and powerful.
>I don't want to keep adding "missing" features until Euphoria
>becomes "C++ with sequences".
>
This is an interesting remark for at least two reasons:
1. As people on this list know, no one despises C more than me.
   I would be the last one to want Euphoria to be more like C.
2. Surely you are aware that "structures" are in no way unique
   to C++,but are shared by Pascal, Icon, Ada, Modula II, VB,
   Delphi, probably even modern versions of Fortran.
   There are good reasons such things have been designed into
   the languages. Clarity, safety, and scalability are three
   that come to mind.

Irv