OpenEuphoria

RE: The Great Computer Language Shootout

• Posted by Ray Smith <smithr at ix.net.au> Nov 07, 2003
• 643 views

jiri babor wrote:
> Has anybody ever tried to form/submit a euphoric set for The Great 
> Computer
> Language Shootout?
> 
> http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/
> http://dada.perl.it/shootout/

Hi Jiri,

There was some discussion on the list a while ago about this.

It's interesting in the FAQ is this:

"The language should have most of the following desireable features:

   1. Ability to read/write 4K buffers, bypassing standard I/O.
   2. Process control (i.e. fork()/wait()).
   3. Exceptions.
   4. Regular Expressions (preferably Perl compatible).
   5. Linux Kernel Threads.
   6. Internet Sockets.
   7. Objects.
   8. Ability to print out its own version number.
   9. A module system, and separate compilation of modules (if 
compiled). 

I may make some exceptions to the above, but only if I feel like it."

The "author" is limiting the languages used to include "what he thinks"
is the minimum requirements of a language.

Euphoria for instance doesn't come close to meeting these requirements.

Many people have on numerious occasions pointed out these limitations
and strangely enough alot of the people don't seem to be around here 
anymore.

Regards, 

Ray Smith
http://rays-web.com