Re: Whitch is better?
Scott:
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From: Scott_Husen <husen at EPIX.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:26 PM
Subject: Whitch is better?
> Whitch is a better and easier to create programs with just curius...
> Visual Basic 5.0 or Euphoria? plz respond anyone who can.
They are two completely different things.
Euphoria is simple (yes, this is simple, wait till you chance into C++ or
asm), text-based (that is, you write it, debug it, etc. with a purely
text-based editor), and sequential (even if you can write procedures like
subroutines and functions, you have to invoke them at your own discretion).
Basic used to be like that, even if I (and most people around here) think
that Eu is far more powerful and generally nicer. But Visual Basic is
nothing like Basic, although it retains some of the original syntax. VB can
be very complicated (i.e. you can write simple programs, but they will do
practically nothing, and certainly nothing better than Euphoria or any
similar language), it is based on a graphical interface (you design "forms"
or "screens" full of text, pictures and buttons) and it is intended to be
event-driven (or, it does mostly nothing until the user enters text, clicks
on a button, etc.).
That is not to say that you should avoid VB. In fact, mastering a VB-like
language is almost a professional necessity nowadays. But I think you should
really become a good programmer first (and Eu is ideal for that), and tackle
VB only when you have a sound theoretical basis and some experience. Bone up
on objects, properties and methods, OOP, client-server apps and SQL, and
only then will VB be actually more useful to you than Eu. Maybe. Or maybe
you'll really get the hang of it and dive directly into Visual C or Java.
But go slowly and surely, don't miss a step.
And please keep on asking away.
Gerardo
P.D.
But if you really must know ... This is something I found at
http://packetstorm.securify.com/unix-humor/chickencrossroad.html. Go there
and read the whole thing.
How did the chicken cross the road?
VB Chicken: USHighways!TheRoad.cross (aChicken)
Of course, you may be conforted by the thought that
Assembler Chicken: First it builds the road ...
Query: has anybody thought how the Euphoria chicken crosses the road?
geb
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