Re: rapideuphoria.com?
- Posted by irv Feb 23, 2019
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The extra features are mostly not necessary - in any given program.
The new ones are there to prevent each programmer from having to re-invent a wheel. Which wheel you would have to invent varies from program to program, and - as we can see by inspecting the user-contributed "wheels" on the RDS site, some of those wheels aren't as easy to use as others, some have bugs, and most lack documentation.
The idea behind 4.0 was to provide tested "wheels" which users could access, rather than having to invent their own versions. This has an additional benefit; there's a standard version so that it's easier to get help from numerous users, rather than trying to get help with a library that few people use and the author of which is no longer around.
While it may look like people were implementing "C-like" functions, in reality those are things that any modern program may need to use. Computers can do a lot more than they were capable of doing when Euphoria was first developed. It would be counter-productive to ignore that.
