OpenEuphoria

Re: Various subjects

• Posted by Daniel Berstein <daber at PAIR.COM> Jun 26, 1998
• 476 views

-----Original Message-----
De: Davi Figueiredo <davitf at USA.NET>
Para: EUPHORIA at cwisserver1.mcs.muohio.edu
<EUPHORIA at cwisserver1.mcs.muohio.edu>
Fecha: viernes 26 de junio de 1998 12:38
Asunto: Various subjects


>[Euphoria X Perl]
>I don't program in Perl, I know nothing about Perl, but I think there is
one big
>difference that was not pointed out: sequences. Does Perl allow you to
create a sequence
>containing atoms and another sequences? That is the biggest difference of
Euphoria when
>compared to other languages, and that is what makes Euphoria so easy and
powerful. If Perl
>allows it, I'm sorry, but I haven't heard of any other language with this
feature.


I don't know Perl, but languages like Lisp and Scheme use "lists" that are
just like our sequences. If my memory dosn't fails Rob said once that one of
Euphoria "inspirations" was Lisp, or alike functional language.

Regards,
    Daniel   Berstein
    daber at pair.com