Re: Is Phix the new de facto standard for Eu programmers?
- Posted by kinz Jan 29, 2021
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Judging by the content of the forum, it would seem that as of today Phix is much more used than OE. But is this really the case? If so, could we regard Phix as the de facto 'flagship' version/variant of Euphoria? (I know, Phix is different from Eu, but still...) This is not just an academic question, I believe, because a total newcomer would want to know which of the two languages they had better investing their learning efforts in.
First of all, Phix was, is and will be a clone of the EUPHORIA programming language, nothing more.
Just a clone. Brilliant, outstanding, superb but a clone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clone_(computing)
The EU source code was secret C and EU texts.
The Phix source code was secret FASM texts.
But syntax of both languages was PURE EU syntax,
that excellent state of the art syntax, some features
of which now has stylish Lua.
Read please:
https://www.rapideuphoria.com/reg.htm
There are registered users of Euphoria 2.5 and earlier in 67 countries!
But what about some registered OE or Phix users?
So, for now we have just rocky stable EUPHORIA language
users of classic 2.5 and 3.1.1 and some new peoples...
Registered vs not! 
Regards
kinz
