1. Re: goto (and getting off-topic)
- Posted by irvm at ellijay.com
Jul 20, 2001
On Friday 20 July 2001 09:05, gwalters at sc.rr.com wrote:
> The porting of basic programs to euphoria is exactly my goal, and i'm
> beginning to think that's it's almost impossible. The basic i've been using
> is THEOS basic (quite a complete basic) which also is available only on the
> THEOS operating system (www.theos-software.com), which is why i'm looking
> at euphoria. I have about 500+ programs to convert which all use 'goto
> label' as well as "select/case/case end". It would seem that although
> discouraged that to assist in porting from other languages that a goto
> label could be allowed.
Frankly, I believe you'll find that attempting to translate BASIC to Euphoria
will be a waste of time.
If you wrote the original programs, then you will find it easier to just
re-write them in Euphoria. If you didn't write them, be prepared to spend
more time trying to figure out the original code than it would take to write
a program with equivalent functionality from scratch.
There are other considerations, also - THEOS is multi-user, Euphoria isn't.
How to handle that? What about the user interface?
It would be interesting to know more about those 500+ programs, and what they
do.
Regards,
Irv
