OpenEuphoria

Re: .il code/file questions

• Posted by sixs <sixs at ida.net> Nov 22, 2004
• 695 views

Hello, <cid:part1.00090300.01070909 at ida.net>
I am looking at this program listing and I see win32lib as the include 
statement. I thought your programs didn't need win32lib or am i 
confused? for instant:
W32TBAR.EXW <cid:part1.00090300.01070909 at ida.net>

Jim

Bernie Ryan wrote:

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>posted by: Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.com>
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>Juergen Luethje wrote:
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>>Absolutely! And I asked the question in exactly that context (which Rob
>>had snipped). Currently, using the Eu 2.5 alpha interpreter, the startup
>>time e.g. for several Win32Lib demo programs is unbearable for me.
>>Yes, my PC is older than 3 years, but everything except of Eu 2.5 alpha
>>runs fine here, and buying a new PC just for Eu 2.5 alpha would mean
>>"a little" too high price for the upgrade.
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>>The only ways that I see to solve this problem is, to significantly
>>reduce the parsing time of the new interpreter front-end, or to make it
>>possible, that pre-parsed code (= IL files) can be included -- maybe
>>with a new keyword such as "link" rather than "include"?
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>Juergen:
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>This is my biggest and only objection to ver. 2.5.
>We donate our time to write large usefull programs and libraries
>and RDS defeats all our efforts and time spent by coming out with
>a product that completely disregards our work.
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>I have built my w32engin.ew library so that a user only needs
>to include this single library with NO EXTRA include file
>to build any windows program. It can run win32lib code or
>"C" style windows code and can be easily extended.
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>A user with the public domain version is not going want to
>use any library that takes forever to load and parse.
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>RDS's answer to the snail speed loading problem is to break it
>up into pieces and use seperate files depending on what the
>user wants to use it for. I don't think I should have to code
>my libraries to correct for a problem that was created by RDS.
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>Whats wrong with RDS solving the real problem  ?
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>Users of Euphoria are from a world-wide user base and some
>of them may not have the money to pay 80 dollars for the
>source or buy a fast computer just to run Euphoria at a 
>reasonable speed.
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>It will be just a matter of time when someone that has
>ver 2.3 or 2.4 source will decide to write their own back-end
>by looking at the source and emulating the back-end.
>RDS will then lose control of a good programming langauge;
>who wants to see 1500 different versions of Euphoria out
>there. Not me.
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>I only want to see one version of Euphoria that works
>properly that has one developer that listens to my
>requests which I am willing to pay for.  
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>Bernie
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>My files in archive:
>w32engin.ew mixedlib.e eu_engin.e win32eru.ew
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>Can be downloaded here:
>>http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan
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