Re: Why Euphoria?
>What is *your* reason for liking Euphoria?
I've been programming (if you can really call it that) in QBasic, and needed
a faster language. I'm still amazed at the speed Euphoria can get up to -
things like mem_copying 200 times to video memory during vertical
retrace. After using BASIC since about 1991 (on a C64) I've been used to
slow looping.
Ease of use: once I unlearnt some BASIC programming habits (especially
no GOTO statement) I found learning new things in Euphoria easy.
Little Code: So little code, so much program!
Small Size: I'd still like to learn C - but 20MB+ for a compiler, and
thousands of files that probably do nothing - no way! Euphoria takes up
~170 KB for DOS, ~70KB for Windows. I'm not blessed with a 5GB hard
drive - I only have 850MB.
Speed: It's fast.
Ooh-la-la: Euphoria is sexy :)
Funny: It's funny people thinking that Euphoria is some sort of program
that teaches you how to get high.
Plus, I got sick of trying to learn C - why should I have to put semicolons at
the end of statements when Euphoria can manage without?
Which leads to another question - how did everyone find out about
Euphoria? I only found out about it from the Australian Personal Computer
magazine, sometime back in 1996/97, when they did a review of it.
Pete Millan
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