1. A few questions
A while back I remember there was talk of porting Euphoria to linux, is
anything going on with that?
Also I was wondering if it was possible to write programs in Euphoria that
can be used in linux ( text editors, games, etc). Or is Euphoria strictly
for writing DOS/Windows apps?
2. Re: A few questions
Gypsy Joker wrote:
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>A while back I remember there was talk of porting Euphoria to linux, >is
>anything going on with that?
i dont think anyone ever replied to your post here, and i apologize
as i was intending to answer it, but it got lost in my mailer.
yes. euphoria is being (well attempting to be) ported to several
platforms. if you have read any posts after you posted yours,
you may have noticed some discussion about converting euphoria
to bytecoding. this will allow even further porting to rare
platforms, not just unix/linux,pc and mac, but perhaps BeOS
and even perhaps embedded systems, pocket computers and the like.
>Also I was wondering if it was possible to write programs
>in Euphoria that can be used in linux
currently, the best port to linux is PEU. the author of PEU
(who shall remain nameless, as I refuse to acknowledge anyone
that names something that sounds like peee-ewww, and uses
alliteration centering around the word poopy) :p (j/k)
may wish to jump in at this point and explain what the
current version of PEU does/can do & doesn't/cannot do.
if you have a modicum of patience, you may very well wish to
wait before charging headlong into using euphoria with linux,
as once the bytecode translators come into being, euphoria
will be practically universally supported.
in the meantime, you could begin writing the programs
that you wish to use on linux, and just use commands
and statements that are surely universal. avoid things
like poke4 and set_vector and the like.
hope this helps...
--Hawke'
