OpenEuphoria

Re: Whitch is better?

• Posted by gebrandariz <gebrandariz at YAHOO.COM> Sep 27, 2000
• 499 views

To R.W.D. (and anyone interested):

----- Original Message -----
From: R. W. D. <filexfer3 at JUNO.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: 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.
>
> This looks like a seeder post...
>
> Try using both languages; then draw your own conclusion.
>
> Soliciting opinions on "which is better" just incites flame wars.

No, no. Man asked for opinion, he'll get opinion. Mine, yours, anybody's. No
flamers need apply.

"Draw your own conclusion" is excellent advice, but, speaking for myself, I
only felt qualified to produce an opinion about, say VB, after many, many
hours hacking away, reading manuals and help files, testing the limits of
the language, comparing performances, etc. etc.

Most things you actually need to know (especially if the guy's deciding
whether to spend some valuable time or money on it), you won't find on the
blurb. It may be buried in small print in page 789, or you may need the SDK,
or something. For example, what are the memory requirements for Internet
Explorer 4.0? It needs 8 MB RAM, says so right on the label. Well, it ain't
so. It needs 8 MB to work, but it needs 12 MB to install. It flatly refused
to install in an old 486 I use for light work. What if I had paid for it?

For many years now I've been asking for and getting advice, good and bad,
relevant and irrelevant. VB is good, VB is bad, VB is a monster, VB is the
eighth wonder of the world. Scott will eventually have to decide for
himself, we can't do that for him. But do you want him to, just on
Microsoft's say-so? How many man/years, woman/years and/or alien/years do we
add up between the lot of us? Several hundred, at a minimum.

I think Scott's right to ask.

Thank you.

Gerardo


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