1. I am reaching "native fluency" in Euphoria
"Native fluency"? Yes. I was writing a database in Euphoria,
and had reached the figure of close to 2000 lines. Then I
thought "this is becoming messy, let me clean this up before
I continue".
My code has shrunk to 331 lines, blank lines and comments
included, and I estimate that another 50 lines will see
the database complete. And that rewriting took me --
count'em -- ONE single day. I didn't keep track of
the hours... 10 hours? More like 8: I took breaks at
playing UFO X-COM (the old one, before Terror from
the Deep)
What happened? The original 2000 lines were in Euphoria
all right, but I was "thinking" in Pascal. So it was
Pascal code translated into Euphoria. (It would have been
the same if I were habitually writing in C or C++, BTW)
My only worry is that I would have a very, very hard time
porting this to Pascal or C now.
All the more reasons to hope for a Linux version of Euphoria
some day. Don't you believe that Linux users want it all
with the source code, and for free! There are lots of
commercial Linux software that sells for $$$ and does
not come with the source code.
I'm harping, aren't I? I'm getting down my soap box... you
can breathe a sigh of relief now.
Frogguy
