OpenEuphoria

Re: Eu - Why? and Why Not (Fairly Long Post)

• Posted by Jason Leit <jasonleit at HOTMAIL.COM> Jun 18, 2000
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I agree about Euphoria not being a "Jumbo Jet Corporate 500.000 Lines Of
Code" programming language suitable to write the next best UT engine at the
present, but with the compiler this will all fade away and you won't have to
worry about writing billions of lines of code and Eu Vs. "You corporate
compiler" speeds, since Eu WILL BE your corporate compiler. Your Euphoria
will be as fast as your 2,000 dollar Visual C++ compiler "just because" it
IS you're Visual C++ compiler, and with Gotos for flow control and code
optmisations, it just might make your programs run faster than if you were
to write them directly
in C.

Offcourse this is all speculation, we all remeber Mike the Spike from these
lists (and my country : ) and his compilers (btw don't hurt me Mike! ; ),
and the Eu compiler might be a great idea possibly inspired by Mike, but
you'll have to give the guy credit for sweet-talking us with the power of Eu
2 C compilation and the bussiness powers it exhausts. I too think Euphoria
is great and lightning-fast, but unfortunatly big-shot companies just won't
trade-in their thousand-dollar C compilers and college-degree C programmers,
for a 50 buck Euphoria Interpretter. They also hate the fact that Euphoria
is a proprietary "closed" product. Tomorrow Robert might get ticked off
about our whinings and say "Crap, I'm stopping work on Euphoria!", and then
what will the companies do that invested in the use of Euphoria? And all
those Eu programmers that learned the language? And what about new features
that keep getting added to the language, a Euphoria 1.5 programmer is not
the same as a Euphoria 2.2 programmer. With this compiler, what is produced
is human-readable C code, this allows C and C++ programmers to see EXACTLY
what makes their programs, and allows them to add features to it even if
Euphoria doesn't support them directly. Meaning C programmers can hold on to
their jobs, software companies can hold on to their C compilers, yet they
all can code in Euphoria cutting development time in half!


Hail to the king, baby!

Jason Leit,
Yahoo! :)
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