1. Terse
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
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.)
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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
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