1. The more I use Euphoria... (was: A Portable API for Euphoria)
Irv Mullins wrote:
> Euphoria 1.5 compares well with, for example, Borland's 6.0
> version of Pascal, which took what -- 8 or 10 years to evolve?
It compares well with Turbo Pascal 7 too. Since I took the leap
into Euphoria, I haven't written a single line of Pascal.
> What surprised me was how little code (usually 20-50 lines)
> it takes to implement each new window gadget, and how
> easy it is to have a new gadget *inherit* behaviors from
> its parent object.
I wrote myself a dictionary-producing piece of code. 39 lines
(not counting blank lines and comments). Then I took a look
at the same thing which I had written in Borland Pascal 7
a year ago: 1349 lines (blank lines and comments included, but
there are very few comments). And my Euphoria dictionary
is much more flexible than my Pascal one. Yes, there are
no typing mistakes: THIRTY-NINE lines of Euphoria (55 counting
blanks and comments), ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE
of Pascal. Pardon me for shouting, but I think it was appropriate.
The more I use Euphoria, the more I like it (that's what I
wanted to say, I got side-tracked). But there is more to it.
I just bought "Code Complete", which although a Microsoft press
title, is a truly excellent book on programming. Euphoria is
not mentioned in it of course, since it was not born when the
book was written. But its features are there, all positively
reported.
I have even reconciled myself with the "strange" behaviour
of parameters, functions, and procedures. I have now
discovered how some apparent shortcomings are in fact
easily overcome by using modules (implemented as
include files), and I now see that these "shortcomings"
actually coax you into modular programming.
Need I say more?
Frogguy (the other Jacques)
