1. Re: strong suits
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> Killer app thing: has someone found something that really is Euphoria's
> strong suit? I relish Perl because nothing beats it for string and text
> handling, and I learned Pascal because I found it easy to read (and plus at
> the time C was a twinkle in most compiler's eyes). What does Euphoria do
> that no other language can?
>
> Since I've registered already, this is a bit after the fact -- but let's
> get some opinions. What can you carry the banner of Euphoria for?
The most significant element in Euphoria would have to be the mighty
sequence. Most other languages force you to pre-allocated the size of your
arrays, where in Euphoria you can simply tack something on the end without
having to worry about sizing limitations. Nested sequences allow for a
tree structure, which is way easier to work with than the pointer
counterparts.
Euphoria also shines for me in that it runs in protected mode and lets you
call precompiled asm procedures from your program. When I first found
Euphoria, I had been looking for a 32-bit pascal compiler that supported
inline asm. I love being able to mix fast low level code with the
simplicity and freedom of Euphoria. The only reason I registered for
Euphoria 2.0 was that it had poke4, which made passing parameters to asm
procedures much faster.
Later,
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