OpenEuphoria

Re: OOP libraries (was: Multiple includes

• Posted by euphoric <euphoric at cklester.com> Nov 11, 2003
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Mike Nelson wrote:

>>>>A quote from the Euphoria reference manual:
>>>>"Euphoria is not an "object oriented" language, yet it achieves
>>>>many of the benefits of these languages in a much simpler way."
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>Irv Mullins wrote:
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>>I disagree, and the number of OOP libraries contributed seems to disagree.
>>I don't think the writers of those libraries would say that Euphoria made it
>>possible to implement those features "in a much simpler way", either.
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>Diamond has a lot of detailed code because of the power features, but the
>fundamental code is actually fairly simple to code and maintain. Where I pay
>the cost is in speed. While Diamond compares well to Python or Ruby, it is
>quite slow vs pure Eu.
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>-- Mike Nelson
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By "quite slow," do you mean by hundredths of a second over the course 
of one million iterations? or what? And that's all relative. For basic 
tasks, I'm sure it will be fast enough on a reasonably equipped rig.