Re: Euphoria in the past, present and future (was: New Euphoria Users Websit
On 14 Nov 2002, at 22:21, Ray Smith wrote:
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> jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:
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> > (I do want a bloated Eu with many features, at the same time I want a
> > slim
> > version as well. i.e., I want both! Hence my viewpoint and decisions on
> > my
> > current projects.)
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> When I first started looking at Euphoria 3 or 4 years ago my
> requirements for a language where very similar to what Euphoria
> offered. (small, fast and uncomplicated).
Back in 1996, when i was running into massive brick walls with Turbo
Pascal, i was looking for something on par with it in size too, and speed. I
had a 586-133 with 32megs of ram and a 540meg harddrive which was full.
That's not the case now. I don't want to see Eu oriented only for people with
7 year old hardware. (But keep supporting win95!!, can't get parts for the
hardware, but the software keeps running ok)
> Now I find my requirements have changed to be a language that
> allows me to:
> * create programs easily (in a variety of areas),
> * to have a large number of “good” libraries available,
> * produce programs that are easy to maintain and enhance,
> * be cross platform,
> * be free and even better open source,
> * be object oriented
> * have a large user base (which helps with many of the above points)
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> As you can see I'm not even consedering speed and size anymore.
> I'm now interested in how easily I can create and maintain applications.
Ditto. Got to say "yes, i can do that", not "i think i can, if i learn a new OS
and new programming language *again*". I haveto be thinking of one
language, not mixing several languages to get functionality.
Kat
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