Re: Euphoria's identity/philosophy -- Where is the focus?
- Posted by jaygade Oct 28, 2014
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SDPringle said...
I think EUPHORIA's core identity is the following:
- to have only one kind of data: objects which are an atom or a sequence of objects
- to have pass by value for *everything*. Not only atoms but sequences as well.
- in contrast to the famous expression "Garbage In, Garbage Out". Euphoria is Garbage In, Error Out.
I think your short list nails it for 80%-90% of the identity of Euphoria, despite the caveats in the rest of your post.
One thing that I would add is that Euphoria code is readable, more than any other language I've studied. It's neither overly terse nor overly verbose, but it seems to hit a sweet spot. Just my opinion.
