Re: [poll] How did you discover Euphoria?
Jason Gade wrote:
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> We've probably done this before, but here's the question: when and how did you
> discover the Euphoria programming language?
>
For me it was around 2000 time frame. I had just worked through one of those
"Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days" books...where's truth in advertising? I just
couldn't believe that writing Windows code had to be that difficult. Of course I
was using Borland's compiler with OWL which at the time was an alternative to
MFC. And I could crash my computer with just the difference between * and & with
no post-mortem.
So one day I started searching for alternative programming languages and came
across Euhporia on one of those "Programming Language List" web sites. Reading
the docs it made it sound so easy. And within 1-2 days I found it was just as
easy as the docs stated. I played language wars for about 2 days and then I dove
into the language. Wrote my first DOS program in no time then got Win32Lib and
within 1-2 days I had a working Windows program. It took me ~6 months to write
one with OWL. Of course, I must say that by the time I got to Win32Lib I had a
lot of Windows concepts already under my belt because of OWL so it wasn't a
complete waste of time.
And to this day I've never written a Euhporia program that caused my PC to
crash. When I've made bone-headed programming mistakes at worst an End-Task
would take care of the problem.
My only sadness is the language just hasn't seemed to pick up any steam. I'm
still going to use it, though. :)
Jonas Temple
http://www.innovativesys.net
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