Re: The tortured soul of a Euphorian ...
Oh, no, Irv!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Irv Mullins" <irvm at ellijay.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: The tortured soul of a Euphorian ...
> > 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]
Hey, I'm still programming in COBOL for a living, and hopefully will keep
doing it for years to come! Damn few COBOL programmers around these days,
Bill Windows be thanked, so we few fossils can make a living writing code
like
Add Something to Something-Else giving Proper-Thanks-To-Whomever.
Though, naturally, your Working-Storage Section should include something
like
77 Something pic 9(6)V99 value zeroes.
77 Something -Else pic 9(6)V99 value zeroes.
77 Proper-Thanks-To-Whomever pic S9(6)V99 value zeroes.
Can you do that with Euphoria? Can you, huh? Can you have an Euphoria
program define a variable as pic 9(2), so that when you add 1 to 99 you get
a simple, magical, unpretentious 00, instead of an ugly 100 anybody can
write with a pencil?
Ah, the joys of debugging a COBOL program somebody else wrote 30 years ago,
when OOP was just a misspelling of OOPS!
BTW, my [favorite antique programming language] is APL II. One-liners,
indeed...
(;-o)
Gerardo
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