Re: New and having problems
- Posted by _tom (admin) May 20, 2016
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I did forget to mention fast which is something I tend not to find in something like python. Further while claiming to be easier to use, python has sure confused the heck out of me many times before. I always found stuff like init(self) to be confusing to look at. Sure experienced python programmers understand the strange syntax, but it always made me feel pretty uncomfortable. Python is not for me, I never liked the white space concept (for one thing) and I never will. It was just nice to type python in terminal and experiment with something by itself real quick to make sure it works. I don't really need or care that much about it but it was nice to have sometimes.
I downloaded wee but it had a runtime error which seemed to be related to incorrect syntax. So I moved on to something else and ended up using vim, then kate. I would like to get wee working one of these days and can share the error I got later in a different thread.
EDIT: By the way, is there an IRC channel available? I usually have trouble learning from documentation alone and having a chat room would be helpful for me as a slow learner.
Easy to Learn
Kernighan and Ritchie describe C as "It is easy to learn, and it wears well as on's [sic] experience with it grows." in the preface to their book on C programming.
Just about every Python book says Python is easy to learn (and some toss in fast).
You should find Euphoria to be genuinely "easy to learn." The syntax is easier on the eyes and there is less clutter in the syntax. Learning to use just atom-sequence means problems often reduce to two choices--if you choose wrong then pick the other option.
Ultimately, the personality of the programmer must match the personality of the computer language.
WEE
Please describe you problems in another thread. We want WEE to be newby ready.
Forum
The Forum tends to be the exclusive way to ask for help.
If you can chat with Ryanj you will have expert help. I haven't got around to trying IRC yet.
If you have any (small or trivial) problems with the documentation then just complain here.
Ruby
Not that I know Ruby, but if you post a code sample in Ruby and then your Euphoria effort it may be easier to explain the Euphoria way of doing things.
_tom
