Re: Easy Euphoria a Fairy tale
- Posted by irv Jun 15, 2015
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I do think a beginning programmer might try something similar to the steps I used. That same beginner might not stumble across display for quite some time.
Agreed, but in a perfect world, they should, though. Perhaps we need a docs update?
That certainly wouldn't hurt. Perhaps I'm alone in this, but I usually can learn a lot more a lot faster by reading good source code than by studying a manual. Show me a small Python program, and I can usually convert it to Euphoria in a few minutes. Give me the specs and the Python manual, it might take a week.
Maybe other folks also look for example code. If they do, then there's a problem, since much of the code on RDS' site is very old Eu, written before the libraries were available and standardized. So they're not seeing the 'modern' way to do things. No use of switch/case, just line after line of if...elsif... No use of display, format, etc.
Short of having the authors bring their code up to date (which isn't going to happen), what's the solution?
