Re: Very First Language to Learn: Phix or Euphoria?
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Apr 14, 2018
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Why on earth would you say that - oh, I see, scary assembly not C, eh?
Hey, I didn't say that. Assembly is not scary to me, but I don't have a lot of confidence in my abilities with it, either.
But I do know most people will be turned off from contributing to the code when working knowledge of assembly is required.
That implies that modifying OE or fixing bugs in it or getting a release out is somehow easier !!!! 
I didn't say that either. In fact, the Euphoria code is a damn mess in some places.
Obviously I can accept that C is theoretically more portable,
C is absolutely portable. Assembly is definitely not portable.
If we'd ever like to see the convergence of Phix and Euphoria, I'd like to see us adopt LLVM as the intermediate language. Now that's portable!
and linux needs an awful lot more work, but...
A lot more work that what, Windows? I would argue Linux is the easiest to work with versus Windows or OS X.
-Greg
