Re: Euphoria vs The Other Guys --- and RTFM
- Posted by _tom (admin) May 02, 2014
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I rather like raw/cooked as an antonym pair; I hope to keep it in the documentation. But, the whole idea is to get some discussion going. I respect anyone who can come up with a "Well-done explanantions?" retort.
So far "conventional" vs "Euphoria" is my way of looking different languages and seeing what there is to be learned.
I am partial to the idea that documentation should not refer to outside sources and languages.
I'm a bit intimidated by writef, so its going to take some time figuring out the syntax.
In my first look at text data I was locked into the old idea that one byte was one character; that makes indexing a character in a string very easy. UTF-8 results in variable length encodings; indexing individual characters in Euphoria is no longer fun. In a Python3 string: x = "▒∆ Hello", printing x[1] produces ∆, which is {226,136,134}. How is Euphoria going to evolve to get a similiar convenience?
_tom
