Re: 64bit support
- Posted by CChris Mar 04, 2009
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Euphoria seems to be built on the mantra: "A simple programming language leads to simple programs." And this is wrong. The complexity that Euphoria avoids, pops up in the programs written in Euphoria: Missing language features need to be emulated. (The need to "peek" and "poke" to access C's structs, for example.) Sequences only allow tree-like structures, general graphs cannot be implemented that easily. And reference counting means that graphs don't have GC support. Euphoria is only simple to learn because it lacks a whole bunch of useful features IMHO.
Thanks for pointing this out, I thought I was the only one on this list to think that a simple language only leads to more complex programs, with more bugs and a less than decent debugger.
CChris