Re: Various languages for practical use
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Mar 26, 2013
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Visual basic - no Linux compatibility. Mono not a satisfactory alternative for Linux
Gambas? xbasic?
... they tried GAMBAS, and again for some unexplained reason they had a lot of glitches and problems.
I like XBASIC myself.... The use of the old assembler inside makes it a little dodgy.
Before coming to Euphoria, I worked with it (with a programmer friend) and the moment you go to a larger project, it crashes.
Ok, fair points on why these aren't a Linux/Visual Basic alternative.
I have also looked at and supervised a medical software project using Eclipse/Haskell combo.... Medical software requires use of lower level (Euphoria level) programming and excellent database support because of need to access and use large databases.
Euphoria is nowhere ready for this last mentioned undertaking.
Actually, Jeremy Cowgar - the person who designed and wrote most of EDBI - works in the health care industry and often uses Euphoria code as part of the package for this purpose. (When he can, the govt here has some strict requirements on which software can be used for what, though.)
