OpenEuphoria

Re: Is Euphoria a Hobby language?

• Posted by Dave Probert <zingo at purpletiger.com> Nov 24, 2004
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I have to agree that in principle Euphoria seems very much a hobby language, but
when there are extra libraries like win32lib, etc, the very same language can be
used for much more.  I guess that it will never have as strong a following as
C,C++,Java,others!, but I for one, have managed to do many things with it that
otherwise would have been laborious in the other languages (of which I am well
aware of).  The main advantage, to me, of Euphoria seems to be the RAD aspect.  I
can knock up a quick windows app to do something very, very quickly and debugging
takes a minimal amount of time.  No Compilation, Linking, etc.

We're about to release a small commercial app (see <a
href='http://www.purpletiger.com?pageid=sequential'>SeQuentiaL</a>) and another
larger commercial bespoke tool (for Marina Management) in another month.  Neither
of these are particularly 'Thread' intensive, or requiring superb code constructs
and could easily have been created using C, C++, or whatever, but we chose to use
Euphoria because of the savings in time and energy while developing.

Basically it CAN be used for commercial stuff, but only if people stop moaning
about ALL the things it's missing and concentrate on what it DOES provide :)

Hey, I also miss OO aspects, cases, structs, pass-by-reference, etc, but I can
get around them with lateral thinking. :)


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