1. Re: C compiler & euphoria editor(s)
SUPER! How about doing the define# LINUX thingy and sletting us paly with
it. Even if the Linux compile doesn't work, I am sure that thre will be
plenty of folks who would love to play with the dos C code and / or binary.
And while I am at ... For several years now I have heard many expert and
novice programmers complain about ed.ex. And the lesson I have learned is
that we are creatures of habit. Nearly everyone who was suckled on the DOS
/ QBasic editor much prefers David Cuny's ee.ex... or Carl White's
derivation thereof. And so be it, the lesson is that we really despise a
learning curve however slight it might be.
I agree with Rob about the mouse... more times than not I think moving your
hands away from the key board is a waste - and ed.ex is a blazingly fast.
The major feature that both of the ee.ex editors have over the euphoria
editor ( ed.ex ) is context sensitive help. I believe that both of the DOS
versions of ee.ex have this feature -and have implemented methods of adding
help modules on the fly. Unfortunately, the LINUX port of ee.ex does not
support context sensitive help. I would certainly like to see this feature
in a LINUX version of ee. This is a tremndous feature which I hope RDS will
add to ed.ex cross platform.
I have found both ed.ex and ee.ex to be remarkably easy to modify as far as
adding syntax coloring and even auto-completion. There are a number of
popular configurable LINUX editors - Moonshine, and COOLEDIT for example.
Yet it appears to me that learning the syntax of the configure scripts for
these editors is much more difficult than modifying the euphoria code in
ee.ex and ed.ex. I am, after all a creature of habit -and rue to learn
another editor's fucntions just to so I can play with a mouse.
BOTTOM LINE
Rob.. please release the DOS C code to ed.ex, etc.
and the LINUX code as well for that matter. I for one will be quite willing
to test it for you and give u bug reports or whatever.
Some of the open source philosophy here might help you... release early,
release often ... let those of us who are willing put your code thru the
mill and give u feedback. Surely this can be done in such a way that will
save you time and effort and thereby shorten the distance to an official
release of the compiler.
hmmmmmmm The speed of the buckect sort is utterly amazingin in interpeted
Euphoria -- does it benefit from the C doe com;pile?
Ken Rhodes
|
| I now have most of the DOS32 programs
| in euphor22.zip running correctly as compiled C programs.
| Even ed.ex runs identically when
| converted to C and compiled into a .exe file.
|
| Regards,
| Rob Craig
| Rapid Deployment Software
| http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
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