Re: The fate of Euphoria
- Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Nov 10, 2004
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Tone Škoda wrote: > > > Derek Parnell wrote: > > > > The presence of a language contruct in a programming language does not > > > necessarily encourage its use. For example, I am not, or have ever been, > > > encouraged to write DOS graphics programs in Euphoria. > > if there exists two or more ways to do the same thing, be it in language or > library > (C++ is typical example, createForm() in win32lib another), it (for me) > greatly complicates > that language or library. here's why: many times it is hard to decide which > method > to use. you have to know what are differences between those two methods, and > so you > have to know details of both methods to know their differences. and i dont > like language > or library where you have to remember a lot of things, or if you do it one way > it might > not be the best way. > > in this area is euphoria very good. > > > analogy with dos graphics is not very good. dos graphics does specific job and > no other > thing does that job. goto and elsif do basically the same thing, or can do the > same > thing. > > this is why structures could complicate eu. :/ Okay. I can understand your opinion. I guess that you, and a number of other Euphoria coders here, will not like my programming language when I finish developing it. And that's fine too. I'm not trying to have GOTO added to Euphoria. I simply don't care if it's in the language or not. I will never use it. And if someone writes a program that contains GOTO then I will work out if I can be bothered reading it. If I can be bothered, I will read it, otherwise I won't read it. -- Derek Parnell Melbourne, Australia