Re: Showcase application for Euphoria?
- Posted by krg May 19, 2014
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The really eye-catching software showcasing Euphoria were games and graphics demos. For DOS and the older Windows platforms, there are countless games written (many still in the archive) which show really how fast Euphoria is. Unfortunately, many games from the early days don't run on current operating systems, but run happily under virtualization / emulation.
I recall Fred Ransom having commented a few years back about writing commercial software using Euphoria, and it working well for him. I'll bet there are quite a few compiled Euphoria applications happily running out there, with customers not realizing that they're running Euphoria.
Jonas Temple wrote an interesting free commercial-grade application FROG, which was a friendly Windows front-end to browsing databases and objects on IBM's AS/400.
This website is also an impressive testament to Euphoria (and so is rapideuphoria.com). Rob Craig (Euphoria's creator) at one time also created a commercial list-filtering service using (I think) Euphoria.
Personally, I created a queue management system server using Euphoria. Queue management systems are typically used in counter services such as banks, where queue tickets are issued, and customers called when an agent was ready to serve them. What was special about this queue management server was that it ran from a single executable and used very little system resources.
krg
