D and euphoria
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Oct 22, 2012
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Forked from Re: Tasks - communication
Considering that the subject of ditching Watcom has been bandied about for a year, and already some effort has been put, into MinGW as compiler;
gcc has been supported since Linux support was added back in...2.something, though I suppose not originally for Windows. Yes, there was effort required to get euphoria ported to 64-bits, and some of this focused on MinGW, though most of the work was applicable to gcc regardless of platform.
considering that a whole thread has been started to vote for ditching Watcom;
considering that you yourself seconded the idea of "D Programming Language's approach" being very good
One cannot escape the logical conclusion that "D Programming Language" would be the correct direction to take.
Sometimes it pays to apply computer logic to day-to-day decision making.
Jim was talking about its approach to sharing data between threads. This is something that we'd like to get into euphoria, and data sharing is one issue. It could also apply to euphoria's cooperative multitasking. However, this is a euphoria language issue that needs to be figured out, and the choice of implementation language for euphoria is a much broader topic that dwarfs any advantage related to D's implementation of sharing data across threads. We often look at other languages when implementing new features in euphoria.
Matt
So the only unsolved questions about which we remain in disagreement
1. Voting for ditching Watcom is not ended;
2. You think "D Programming Language" is vastly different from C, and I don't.
2. A separate thread is required.
A new thread seemed like a good idea to me. 
Matt
