Re: Minimalism and Euphoria
- Posted by AndyDrummond Oct 24, 2014
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I'm one of those who still like the old Euphoria 3. I use Judith Evans' IDE almost exclusively, and what I love about the whole thing is that I can write a dead simple program for some silly job or do some complex emulation job, and when I press f5 - it runs. Instantly. No hangups, just runs. Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 (grr) and Windows 10 alpha. Just works. I do it rarely enough that I don't remember all the options and syntax rules in Eu4, but to compensate I have to put up with having main() as the last function and occasional namespace funnies in Eu3. I want to get away from all the code involved in making a program work, I just want to write my code and have it run. It's fabulous.
As an aside, Judith never really finished cleaning up the IDE; she went down with dementia soon after stopping work on it, and I have to say I'm not even sure she's alive. Her husband Archie has not replied to my emails recently. But the IDE, once you get used to some of its funnies, is extremely useful. Am I the only user of it?
