OpenEuphoria

1. Euphoria Xmas Wish List

• Posted by Alexander Yakovlev <ayakv at GLASNET.RU> Dec 23, 1996
• 1435 views

Dear Santa, Grandfather Frost and all Euphorians,

As a recent adopter of Euphoria, I want to thank the developers
and everyone contributing to the creation of a wonderful and very
*practical* language. It certainly stands head and shoulders above
all interpretive languages in its class in ease of use and a neat
concept. So far I've only been playing around with it, but I'm
thinking of converting all my li'l programs to Euphoria. Once the
initial euphoria--pardon the pun--is over and one gets down to
business, the work whets the inevitable and very human desire to see
what's in store for the language and the programmer using it.
Euphoria is a growing and ambitious language, and I'm sure everyone wants to and
 should
have a say in what direction its future evolution will take.
I am not a programmer but a linguist by training and occupation,
and I feel I've become something of a computer language linguist as well,
what with my experience with many--lots--of programming languages and
systems, and I would like to discuss the future of the language
with everybody who's actively using it.

Christmas and the New Year is the time for making plans and evaluating
what's been done. As a strong believer in miracles and Santa (Grandfather
Frost in Russia), I've put together a wish list for what I'd love to see
in Euphoria. Of course, most of these things could be implemented as
libraries, etc., but it would be great to have them in the package,
because not everyone earns his living by hard-core programming, or has the
time to do it himself. It takes a collaborative effort to move anything on--
after all, even a child is born with someone else's help 

So, here it is:

1. a full-blown inine assembler (possibly as a pre-processor app.)
2. .obj file inclusion (oo well, I know it's wishful thinkin);
3. clever string matching/parsing; once agin, everything could be done
                        using the Euphoria data structures, but string
                        processing is--well, a very voracious process
                        as far as memory and time are concerned, and
                        in my view, are best to be realized on the
                        machine level as part of the interpreter/bytecode
                        compiler;
4. a Ms Windows verson (I know, I know...--don't like M$ WinDo$ either,
                        but users love icons and you are somehow
                        deficient in the eyes of those you make a program
                        for if you tell them they can't play with their toys.)
   Dear Sants, I don't think it's necessary to support the whole API,
   but access to the MS W. interface would be appreciated!
5. an interactive Euphoria-aware programming environment (interpreter);
6. minimal binding to cut down the runtime overhead. Tough one, this, though.

Thanks for bearing with my exessive wishes, dear Santa. Am I gonna get any
of these things? Pleeeeze!

So what do you say? Seriously, I'd like to hear what you think about Euphoria
(not only the praise I hear on the mailing list) and what can be done
to make an excellent language IDEAL, whatever purpose you use it for. Let this
be a challenge!

Merry Christmas to all, and a very happy, prosperous, healthy and productive
year!!!

Alexander