Re: Euphoria in the past, present and future (was: New Euphoria Users Websit
- Posted by Kat <kat at kogeijin.com> Nov 14, 2002
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On 14 Nov 2002, at 22:21, Ray Smith wrote: > > > jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote: > > [big snip] > > > (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.) > > 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) > > 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