Re: Is Euphoria a Hobby language?
Patrick Barnes wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:48:32 -0800, cklester <guest at rapideuphoria.com>
> wrote:
> > Patrick Barnes wrote:
> > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:07:59 -0800, cklester <guest at rapideuphoria.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > posted by: cklester <cklester at yahoo.com>
> > > > But then, I don't have a CS degree, so what do I know? ;)
> > > Euphoria's biggest flaw is that sometimes you are forced to do things
> > > in a slow way, because there are limited ways to accomplish task N.
> > How could limited options slow things down? I like how somebody else put
> > it... With Euphoria, I stop worrying about syntax and can concentrate on
> > the algorithm.
>
> Well, implement a program that uses threads.
Can you provide the name of a few programs that use threads? I doubt any
program on my PC uses threads... from Quicken to UltraEdit to Firefox to...
well, maybe Firefox.
I suspect that less than 5% of all computer programs on personal or
business PCs use threads. Am I close? :)
> Or can load plugins dynamically, and call functions within those plugins.
That would seem to be a complicated thing to pull off... or no?
What language can do that? Isn't it just a matter of somebody coming up
with a way to do that?
> Or break out of multiple levels of loop without slowdown.
?
> Or make sure a large data array doesn't contain any illegal values.
Is that a reference to structures? I can see how that would benefit
Euphoria.
> Or manage the namespaces properly for a large project that includes
> many 3rd party libs.
I can perceive that as a problem; I'm fortunate it's never affected me.
> > Or, answer this question: Who builds tools for ruby, lua, python, etc? I'm
> > talking developer tools.
>
> That's another weakness in Euphoria. Not that it's necissarily Rob's
> fault, but even the largest developer tool in Euphoria, IDE, is full
> of bugs.
Well, get on it! :P
> I'd love to see a serious text-based IDE... I've been using Eclipse by
> IBM for some Java development at work, and it kicks the pants off of
> every other IDE I've ever seen, even VC++.
I'm gonna hafta check that out. A text-based IDE. Sounds doable! :)
-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/
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