Re: [poll] How did you discover Euphoria?
Ricardo Forno wrote:
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> I don't remember the year; it was probably around 1994. I had been looking for
> APL interpreters, and saw a reference to Euphoria as
> an APL-like language. I appreciate Euphoria simplicity and power.
> The list of languages I have worked in is long: starting with IBM 1401 SPS
> (an old assembler), I programmed in FORTRAN, IBM /360 Assembler, APL, Pascal,
> BASIC, COBOL, Commodore 64 Assembler, C, PC Assembler, and more.
>
> By the way, Jason, in Internet I easily have found references to the Amiga E
> language. It seems to have evolved a lot, but apparently it is still only
> an Amiga language and a single-man project.
>
> Regards.
Heh, that's cool. I think that Wouter stopped developing it long ago and moved
on to other projects. The source code (originally in 68000 assembler) has been
released freely. There seem to be a couple of projects based on it as well.
Before I found Euphoria, I thought that it was a beautiful language. Now looking
at it again I can see many of its limitations. And yet, I also see a lot of
features that people ask for in Euphoria.
I've never really written a large program although I really like programming
languages. Other than BASIC (I skipped the whole QBASIC thing -- the last BASIC I
programmed in ran on an 8-bit computer and required line numbers), I've studied
and written small programs in C, C++, Java, Javascript (which I love), Awk, shell
script, and a few others.
--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare
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