1. Re: How about GNUphoria - was PEU CVS
hmmmmmmm so PEU started out as GNUphoria, or GNUphoria
inspired PEU. MY vote ( or rather opinion ) goes
toward reintstating that name and, of course, the GPL
license to the current Open Source Eu project.
--- David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> wrote:
>
> Before Pete wrote Peu, I decided to take a crack at
> it. My program was called
> "Gnuphoria", on account that it would be released
> under GPL.
>
> There were a lot of problems with Gnuphoria. Since
> sequences can move around
> in memory, I used this arcane scheme of blocks which
> held the addresses. The
> upper byte of the handle referred to the block the
> byte was stored in, and
> the lower byte was the index into the block.
>
> Of course, all I really needed to do was allocate
> space in memory for a
> structure that held the address of the sequence;
> something like:
>
> struct Seq {
> void *address; /* points to the structure */
> ...
> }
>
> It just got worse from there. I got some basic stuff
> working - sequences,
> simple control structures - but Pete's code far
> outstripped mine.
>
> That was fine with me, since I was really hating C
> coding anyway. So I dropped
> my project. I can't recally why Pete eventually
> dropped Peu, though...
>
> -- David Cuny
>
>
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