Re: Euphoria vs The Other Guys --- and RTFM
- Posted by _tom (admin) May 02, 2014
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Which becomes...how many people are confused by Euphoria because of lingering conventional ideas that are not Euphoric?
Can you expand on this question? To me, the central idea of Euphoria is pretty easy to grasp.
Euphoria does not have a string data-type--conventional background expects it. In the past, there have been requests that a string data-type be added to Euphoria--conventional wish. Data storage for a sequence and for a dedicated string are not the same--conventional thinking sees this as a problem. Truly automated output of text data does not exist...for example console:display will sometimes show you a small integer instead of a character--conventional thinking does not understand this.
Euphoria behaves as if it has a string data-type--but not with conventional thinking. Text data in a sequence has unexpected flexibility--not conventional.
sequence s = "Hello" s += 0.1 ? s --> {72.1,101.1,108.1,108.1,111.1} puts(1, s) --> Hello
So if you learn Python first, to what extent do you keep programing in Python when writing Euphoria code?
Also how much of my documentation is based on Fortran, PL/1, C, Pascal, APL, Snobol, ... ? How does this distort my explanations?
_tom
