OpenEuphoria

Re: Is Euphoria a Hobby language?

• Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> Nov 24, 2004
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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:02:01 -0800, Dave Probert
<guest at rapideuphoria.com> wrote:
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.

Yes, exactly. I wrote a translation script (break a file up, send it
piece by piece through an online translation service, reassemble
translated fragments) in Euphoria in about 2 hours. In any other
language, it would have taken weeks.

> 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. :)

Well....
That's just it. Yes, you can create work-arounds for the bits that
euphoria is missing, but all the hacking and kludging kinda opposes
the RAD spirit, doesn't it?
*That's* why Euphoria needs to be enhanced occasionally... to keep up
with the whole idea of a RAD paradigm.

-- 
MrTrick