Historical Eu_HOPL, Revision 2
HOPL is "Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages"
The HOPL page for Euphoria is http://hopl.info/showlanguage.prx?exp=2020&language=EUPHORIA
The HOPL questionnaire:
Email address *
Name of language *
Logo
URL of logo
Name/s of designer/s, developer/s *
Robert Craig Toronto
Country of origin *
The country in which the language was developed
Country: Canada
Main website for language *
Year language development began *
Designed 1999
Year language published *
The year the language was made publicly available for use
1999
Known influences on language design *
What other languages influenced the development of this language
Robert Craig's Masters thesis in Computer Science at University of Toronto, which was strongly influenced by the work of John Backus on functional programming languages.
Description of language *
for End User Programming Hierarchial Objects for Robust Interpreted Applications
Robert Craig Toronto
a simple, powerful, flexible language that is easy to learn. It is not a true OOL but achieves many of the benefits in a much simpler way. Dynamic storage location. Objects of any size can be assigned to an element of a Euphoria sequence (= array).
Robert Craig's Masters thesis in Computer Science at University of Toronto, which was strongly influenced by the work of John Backus on functional programming languages.
Peer-reviewed publications (journals or conference papers)
On-line documentation link/s
http://rapideuphoria.com/manual.htm
Historical notes
Other notes of interest related to language development, contact with other developers etc.
End User Programming Hierarchial Objects for Robust Interpreted Applications
HOPL language classification
See HOPL's "Polychotomous key for the classification of programming languages" http://hopl.info/polykey.html
EUPHORIA(ID:2020/eup003)
Approximate size and composition of user community
Does a community of language users exist? How many are there, approximately? What kind of people/companies/institutions use the language?
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