Re: Why Euphoria?
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:55:33 +1000, Peter Millan wrote:
>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.
I'm not exactly sure but it was probably a search engine that pointed me to
a free language that did Windows. Looking at the online documentation
convinced me to give it a go, since there weren't too many keywords that I
had to learn. The Win32 demos that come with the package scared me a bit,
though, until I stumbled upon Win32Lib that made it a WHOLE lot easier
(thanks David!).
When I got to the point where my programs were over 300 statements I
decided that $40 was a fair price for the debugging features alone (and I
could make stand-alone exe's on top of that).
Euphoria has been a great hobby language for me but I'm to the point in my
career where I need to bite the bullet and start doing more C coding. Most
employers have never heard of Euphoria and most are looking for strong
C/C++ coding skills. On the other hand, that Eu -> C translator might be a
nice tutor depending upon how smart it is. (Although I'm not sure if I
like the fact that it translates some stuff into 'goto's. I was taught
that 'goto's lead to spaghetti code and I've been able to get along just
fine without them for many years.)
-- Brian
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