1. Long time no post...
Hello all. Anyone remember me? I don't think I've posted on here in over a year
or so.
Today I found some reference to Euphoria online and my reaction was "Oh my God!
I remember that..." It's odd, really. Euphoria was the only language I programed
in for something like two full years. It was my programming life, I wrote every
program in Euphoria, except when I tried to write a Euphoria interpreter in
OpenPascal over a summer. I used it at my job for all my scripting tasks and even
got my supervisor to sign off on letting me use it for a client or two. I was
even writing a book on Euphoria programming (maybe I'll finish it someday,
although it's probably obsolete already).
Eventually, as college neared its end I started trying to find a job and such. I
was starting work in a start-up doing Common Lisp work in Mac OS X (hence some of
my last posts here consisted of me favorably comparing Euphoria to Lisp and
complaining that Euphoria still wasn't available for Mac). The start-up fell
through but Mac OS X and Common Lisp were too good to ever give up. Since then
I've done no work in Euphoria and all my programming in Common Lisp (except for
work, which was in Matlab and Java). Due to this change me checking EUforum made
less and less sense until I just stopped doing it.
Anyways, while I am mostly just poking my head in and saying "Hi" I also do have
some questions:
1) How has the language changed? The last time I used Euphoria was right before
the switch to it being open source (I think my last post was me saying I was
going to work on porting Euphoria to Mac OS X). So, what has changed since 2.5?
3) Are there any new "killer apps" in Euphoria?
3) How is everyone? Good? I briefly saw that a goto thread got started again. I
guess I didn't miss much... 
- Derek
2. Re: Long time no post...
Hi, Derek! Has it been a year already?
> 3) How is everyone? Good? I briefly saw that a goto thread got started again.
> I guess I didn't miss much...
Heh, that about sums it up. But we haven't had a good goto argument in quite
awhile!
Jeremy Cowgar has proposed a standard library project and is actually making
progress on it for future release. Otherwise up to this point the language is
still pretty much the same.
How goes Common Lisp? I never quite grokked Lisp or its variants, although I'm
slowly starting to learn some of its features that have made their way into other
languages.
--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare
j.
3. Re: Long time no post...
D. Newhall wrote:
>
Welcome back!
> 1) How has the language changed? The last time I used Euphoria was right
> before
> the switch to it being open source (I think my last post was me saying I was
> going to work on porting Euphoria to Mac OS X). So, what has changed since
> 2.5?
A Mac OS X port has been done, but it is not in current SVN trunk. It would be
fantastic to have you on board and tidy the port up to work with SVN trunk. In
fact, it may just work.
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=OSX
Release notes for the current SVN trunk are available at:
http://jeremy.cowgar.com/euphoria/relnotes.htm
There are a few really killer features that have been added in the last few
days. The release notes have not been regenerated because currently the doc
structure is changing, so not everything is converted to the new format. I think
they are: continue, conditional includes and conditional compiling. Sets have
also been added. An expansion of available functions has been underway as well,
over 100 functions have been added to Euphoria.
> 3) Are there any new "killer apps" in Euphoria?
Hm. BBCMF is one that comes to mind by CK Lester. Others will have ideas there
too.
> 3) How is everyone? Good? I briefly saw that a goto thread got started again.
> I guess I didn't miss much...
I'm doing good, but then again, you probably do not know me as I was not active
on the forums a year ago. Well, I popped in once in a while. I'm a long time
Euphoria user, just not long time forum user.
Pleased to meet you!
--
Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com
4. Re: Long time no post...
Oh, Eu 4.0 also has built in regular expressions now also.
--
Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com
