Re: Euphoria vs. other programming languages
- Posted by CChris Mar 06, 2009
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I do.
It is simply not true that other conventional languages "wish to have" meaningful error messages.
Sure, it all depends what you include in "conventional languages". This would deserve at least a footnote. In the two I use more, and the one which I use at work, meaningful error messages are fairly standard. (Pascal, Eiffel and SAS).
As for the "elegant design"... of course, it is a question of taste. No clear way to determine or set the visibility of a symbol? No PBR? Forward references that make maintainance as difficult as in C? Those are at least three reasons for which I definitely disagree with this statement. Not to mention those 30-bit integers which make interfacing with other languages such a pleasure.
You should add, so as not to mislead newcomers: "A language without a programming IDE". Visual Euphoria (from the archive) is a first step towards that, but obviously falls short of an useful IDE.
CChris
