Re: New and having problems
- Posted by _tom (admin) May 19, 2016
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Hello I am a volunteer developer of Euphoria. Can you please tell us what attracted you to Euphoria in particular? Why are you not using Ruby?
The manual details a function for parsing command arguments. Remember that everything is pass by value (or simulated pass by value).
SD Pringle
Euphoria has a plentiful standard library, it can be compiled or interpreted, it can run on ARM, it's portable, it's under a BSD license, it's pretty simple to pick up for most people. Now it just needs an interactive interpreter (it may already have one) like irb, python and lua.
I a curious, why do you want an interactive interpreter? Is there a real application for interactive mode?
I haven't worked with irb, but in the case of Python my observations are:
Python was designed to be a "teacher's language." That means it has features that make a teacher happy like: the interactive mode, and controversial syntax. Interactive mode is good for the first few lessons in a Python course--it gives teachers something to do. The strange Python syntax is good for people marking Python code--easy on the marker's eyes and has just enough oddities to trick students and allow them to fail. They get stuck with it, but learners and users do not want a teacher's language.
Get the WEE editor. You can enter the command line arguments into the editor and then execute code. Because Euphoria is fast you do not need a slow interactive mode. You get a hard-copy of your test code--writing disposable code that vanishes is described as a feature when you use Python in interactive mode. Writing code with WEE is better than interactive mode.
For example, pretending to be newby, I offer this interative help session on Python:
To get a list of available modules, keywords, or topics, type "modules", "keywords", or "topics". Each module also comes with a one-line summary of what it does; to list the modules whose summaries contain a given word such as "spam", type "modules spam". help> spam no Python documentation found for 'spam' help> modules spam Here is a list of matching modules. Enter any module name to get more help. help>
Yes, I should know better, but I feel this help system is overrated.
Friendly | Flexible | Fast
I am trying to develop Friendly, Flexible, Fast as the unique signature for Euphoria. (Phix is can also be called Friendly | Flexible | Fast.)
Using your words in my framework I get this:
Friendly
"it's pretty simple to pick up for most people."
Flexible
"Euphoria has a plentiful standard library, it can be compiled or interpreted, it can run on ARM, it's portable, it's under a BSD license, "
Fast
Not mentioned. (I get the impression that most people like slow sluggish languages.) Is a fast Euphoria better than a interactive interpreter?
_tom
