OpenEuphoria

Re: Compiler Source Code

• Posted by Rom <kjehas at frisurf.no> Nov 21, 2002
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"An native Euphoria.NET compiler"?

I am wondering if this will be consistent with people's conception of =
Euphoria? Will investing a lot effort in that direction pay off? If =
Euphoria has any philosophy it must be that simpler is better.

I would have moved in another direction, making Euphoria simpler than it =
is today. I remember FORTH many years ago. It was internally the =
simplest possible interpreter solution.... but it ourperformed Basic by =
50:1 (as far as I can remember). A FORTH program is almost compiled ... =
using a small kernel to read the functions calls. Euphoria have to parse =
source once (I suppose). Today there is it no need for making user see =
the FORTH syntax. The language can be any syntax (?), like Euphoria .... =
some simple translation.

The real value of simplicity is that then everyone can contribute, and =
just eyeballing code becomes good verification. Unluckily that does not =
seem to be the case for Eu/Peu core?

Euphoria need an up to date IDE/debugger for sure.

Rom