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Re: more powerful than c++(...able to leap over tall buildings with a ..)

• Posted by dubetyrant at hotmail.com Apr 03, 2003
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So c++ must be as fast as c because it is compiled? Does that mean any 
compiled language would be faster than the fastest interpreted?(euphoria);}






>From: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
>Subject: Re: more powerful than c++(...able to leap over tall buildings 
>with a ..)
>
>
>On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:36:37 -0500, <dubetyrant at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>>Hi all,
>>Just curious, the claim that euphoria is "more powerfull than c++", how is 
>>this arrived at? As
>>a side note, I love euphoria and believe that Rob C. is close to a genius, 
>>I just want to know why thats
>>on the website? We already know euphoria is slower than c because it was 
>>programmed in c, but what is the comparison with c++ coming from, any 
>>benchmarks? These are the two languages I deal with, Im kind of curious...
>>thx,
>
>I suspect it comes from the idea that, given a programming project that 
>started from scratch (ie. no-code reuse from other projects), one could 
>achieve delivery of the product faster with Euphoria than with C++, and 
>with fewer bugs.
>
>I don't know of any hard data to support this position, and I'm sure it is 
>anacedotal. Religious Wars have been started over less 
>
>I'd love to see properly kept statistics over the life-time of a Euphoria 
>project which was run in a CMM Level 3+ environment.
>
>--
>
>cheers,
>Derek Parnell
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