Re: Is Phix the new de facto standard for Eu programmers?
- Posted by euphoric (admin) Jan 27, 2021
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...surely it is ten times better than https://openeuphoria.org/docs/ - I mean, look at it honestly.
No, and for one reason: search.
Remind me, how do you do a search on https://openeuphoria.org/docs/ (and no, I am not being sarcastic or flippant!)
Click the "manual" tab. Then use the search box in the upper right.
Give me search, Pete! 
Yes, now I remember! It's been a while that I've been able to use Eu/Phix, unfortunately. 
I can tell you it is case sensitive, exact-only, and indexes no more than 2045 terms, many of which are title phrases such as "As a first programming language",
which only works at all for that exact full and correct case input, even one character out and it's "not found" time.
Yeah, the search isn't good. I've been frustrated by it many times.
So, again, why is the search function in the Euphoria docs any better?
It's not! I retract my prior false statements! 
