1. Terse
- Posted by Andy Kurnia <akur at DELOS.COM> Jun 28, 1998
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Read http://www.terse.com ... Euphoria is verbose ("if x = 3 then p() end if"), while terse is the opposite of it ("x-3?=={=.p};"). ("How to read that?", would probably be your first reaction...) Well if you know the language, having a terse syntax is fine. If you don't know the language, you probably won't be interested to read the source... (that webpage is filled of links to reasons) Anyone willing to write such a preprocessor for *.ex? (syntax is yet to be defined)
2. Re: Terse
- Posted by Robert McDougal <thedoog at MAILEXCITE.COM> Jun 27, 1998
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Andy, I like the idea of designing a preprocessor that would use a TERSE like syntax and convert programs to Euphoria. IF the syntax isd designed intuitively enough, then writing programs in such a manner could be faster and possibly easier then writing them in Euphoria. My only suggestion before such a project was began is to be sure that metastatements are included which handle #euphoria and #endeuphoria so that Euphoria statements can be included (or possibly do it the other way so that a regular euphoria program would pass through unharmed. If you have any more thoughts on this matter, I at least would like to here them. (I'm not saying I think assembly is easy, but terse isn't assembly. Its at a higher level. I'm sure you know that but there may be some others who might not realize that.) - Robert McDougal thedoog at mailexcite.com Free web-based email, Forever, From anywhere! http://www.mailexcite.com
3. Re: Terse
- Posted by Alan Tu <ATU5713 at COMPUSERVE.COM> Jun 27, 1998
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- Last edited Jun 28, 1998
Andy, Every language has its market. I like Euphoria because, as you might suspect, it isn't terse. BTW, you want terse? YOU WANT TERSE? Write in Euphoria, shrouded form. --Alan =