Re: Bach - PEU

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<div><FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:44:13=
 -0500, Irv Mullins wrote:</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3 COLOR=3D"#000080"> </FONT><div><FONT=
 FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3 COLOR=3D"#000080"> &gt;</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3 COLOR=3D"#000080"> &gt;The things=
 you added to Bach were all well thought out and=
 useful.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3 COLOR=3D"#000080"> &gt;I think you=
 were handicapped by having to work within=
 Euphoria's</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3 COLOR=3D"#000080"> &gt;limitations.=
 Limited not only by what you are allowed to do by</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3 COLOR=3D"#000080"> &gt;contract, but=
 by limitations in the original design of the=
 language.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3 COLOR=3D"#000080">=
 &gt;</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3 COLOR=3D"#000080"> </FONT><div><FONT=
 FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3 COLOR=3D"#000080"> I don't think that Euphoria=
 really has any limitations, in the sense of having features that=
 prevent the implementation of other features that I would=
 like.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3 COLOR=3D"#000080"> It does have many=
 limitations in terms of those convenience features that I expect=
 from a language.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3 COLOR=3D"#000080"> The source code=
 is somewhat difficult to deal with. Adding classes was very=
 hard, but most of the other features were fairly&nbsp;=
 straight-forward (even exceptions).</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3 COLOR=3D"#000080"> </FONT><div><FONT=
 FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3> The development of PEU holds great promise,=
 but I am concerned as to whether people are underestimating the=
 huge amount of time and effort needed. I expect it to wither=
 away in a few months.</FONT><br></div>
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<FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3>=
 I looked at the PEU source code, and while I was impressed with=
 it, I suspect that the scale of complete product would require a=
 complete re-write, starting with a design phase. This may be=
 just me, but I can't imagine writing a translator without at=
 least separate symtab, scanner, parser, allocation, error=
 handler,&nbsp; io, and runtime modules.</FONT><br></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3>=
 Karl</FONT><br></div>
<div><FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D3>  </FONT><br></div>

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