Re: Wee editor 0.36
- Posted by _tom (admin) Nov 05, 2015
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I'm not so sure. The documentation refers to it as the Euphoria to C Translator or just Translator and doesn't put emphasis on the compilation step after the translation to C has happened. Perhaps euc is a just a shortened Euphoria to C.
Don't believe the documentation. At least until I have changed it. (The world need more humor.)
The "Eu to C" is a worthy observation.
In RDS3.1 it is definitely called "Euphoria to C translator" or "Translator." It was also named ecu. It only produced a C file which you then had to compile.
In oE4 it is euc and still "Euphoria to C Translator." But, the default result is a compiled app and not a translated C file unless you use the -keep flag.
I like the flow of eui (euphoria interpreter) so it goes with euc (euphoria compiler) as a matching set. Much easier to understand what is going on. Much simpler to remember.
I have also seen references that if a "translator" does enough processing it can be elevated to "compiler."
Now, in a Wee editor (if targeting simple minded programmers like me) Translate is not doing a "translate" job--it Compiles (no option there to even produce a translated product).
I can spin the documentation either way. But, "compiler" make the most sense to me at the moment.
_tom
