Re: Whitch is better?
> From: gebrandariz
<snip>
> 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).
But it's not necessarily text-based or sequential.
> Basic used to be like that, <snip> [but] 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.).
In short, it's meant for designing windows programs. Although there's no
DOS analog in Eu (yet--how long before someone creates an IDE for Jiri's
widgets?), there is certainly win32lib, and Judith Evans' ne David Cuny's
IDE for it. It really does have a VB feel about it. If anyone here hasn't
yet, but is interested in programming in windows, start with that. And it's
all pure Eu. Unless you're writing a highly graphical game or doing some
serious number crunching, there's plenty of speed for anything you're trying
to do. And this might not be such a problem once we figure out the
translator.
The nice thing about Eu is that we now have some higher level development
tools (OOP, win32lib, widgets, etc), but you can still get into the guts of
everything as much as you'd like. And Eu will happily work in the console
for simple things. I've used it tons for little jobs like cleaning up data
to put into a database. In fact, I use it every day to convert some
gibberish that a customer sends over electronically in X12 form to something
that's legible to a human. And it's _fast_.
That said, I still use VB (mainly VBA, really). It has some neat features,
but I always find myself wishing I had as much flexibility in data handling
as in Eu.
Matt Lewis
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