1. Re: The tortured soul of a Euphorian ...
On Friday 15 June 2001 09:40, Ray Smith wrote:
> Do you use Euphoria to make your programming tasks Simpler?
Yes
> Do you sometimes search the net for a "better way" to program and
> find dozens of options which sound amazing but all fail in one way
> or another?
Continually, and they do.
> Are we all wasting our time with Euphoria? (and every other non main
> stream language?)
If we thought that, we'd all still be programming in Fortran or COBOL or
[your favorite antique programming language here]
> Do you find that Euphoria makes the simple things very easy and the
> complex things near impossible?
The other way around, for me. The things that would be complex
and bug-ridden if written in C are one-liners in Euphoria.
However, Euphoria makes us jump thru hoops to do things that in other
languages are easy.
> Should we all (well maybe just I) concentrate on a main stream
> language like Pascal/Delphi or C/C++?
I have a current Delphi in a box on the shelf here. I don't use it if
there's any way to avoid it. My last experience with it was bad -
I lost a day's work when Delphi mysteriously erased several files.
I started over in Euphoria, and had a working program done in less
time than it would have taken to reconstruct the lost Delphi code.
> With all the time I have spent wrapping C libraries I imagine I could
> have been a pretty advanced C programmer by now.
No doubt you could. I just don't have the patience.
Besides programming, I sometimes build houses.
I begin by ordering 2x4's and plywood from the lumber yard,
not by planting acorns. ;)
Regards,
Irv
