Re: The tortured soul of a Euphorian ...
- Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Jun 15, 2001
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On Friday 15 June 2001 09:40, Ray Smith wrote: > Do you use Euphoria to make your programming tasks Simpler? Yes > Do you sometimes search the net for a "better way" to program and > find dozens of options which sound amazing but all fail in one way > or another? Continually, and they do. > Are we all wasting our time with Euphoria? (and every other non main > stream language?) If we thought that, we'd all still be programming in Fortran or COBOL or [your favorite antique programming language here] > Do you find that Euphoria makes the simple things very easy and the > complex things near impossible? The other way around, for me. The things that would be complex and bug-ridden if written in C are one-liners in Euphoria. However, Euphoria makes us jump thru hoops to do things that in other languages are easy. > Should we all (well maybe just I) concentrate on a main stream > language like Pascal/Delphi or C/C++? I have a current Delphi in a box on the shelf here. I don't use it if there's any way to avoid it. My last experience with it was bad - I lost a day's work when Delphi mysteriously erased several files. I started over in Euphoria, and had a working program done in less time than it would have taken to reconstruct the lost Delphi code. > With all the time I have spent wrapping C libraries I imagine I could > have been a pretty advanced C programmer by now. No doubt you could. I just don't have the patience. Besides programming, I sometimes build houses. I begin by ordering 2x4's and plywood from the lumber yard, not by planting acorns. ;) Regards, Irv