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RE: Routine_ID Is No Doubt My Solution...

• Posted by rforno at tutopia.com Apr 15, 2003
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Derek:
I can assure you that "Horses for Courses" is neither used in Argentina, not
even in English-speaking circles;)
Regarding the subject of programming in different languages, I in a certain
way agree with Mr. C. K. Lester. I think that every programming language has
its pros and cons, and you have to adapt you programming style to each
language you program in. Particularly, I find Euphoria very manageable and
akin to my programming style.
I think the its weak spots lie in the trace and debugging facility, even its
being better than most other languages.
I will welcome facilities to:
1) See expressions, not only variables, during trace.
2) Show only variables (expressions) that one selects, and not automatically
selected ones.
3) Allow changing variable values, and perhaps executing routines while in
trace.
4) Save the status of the program in order to continue execution later.
In addition, I would like to be able to execute strings read or created
during program execution, and I'd prefer passing all parameters as
references, excepting constants and expressions.
But as it is today, Euphoria is a very, very useful language (at least for
the tasks I am using it for). I only had to resort to C for a large program,
CPU intensive, for speed reasons.
Regards.
----- Original Message -----
From: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 1:09 AM
Subject: Re: Routine_ID Is No Doubt My Solution...


>
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 22:50:51 -0500, C. K. Lester <cklester at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Sunday 13 April 2003 10:23 am, Derek wrote:
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
> >>
> >> > I still have yet
> >> > to find something lacking in EUPHORIA, or something I
> >> > consider to be a detriment to programmers.
> >>
> >> Horses for Courses.
> >
> > What in all of creation does that mean? I could Google it, but it's
close
> > to bedtime.
>
> Sorry - I didn't realize this expression is not used in the U.S. It
> generally means that each situation is best suited to some solutions
rather
> than others. In the context of my usage, I was trying to say your view of
> Euphoria, "I still have yet to find something lacking in EUPHORIA..." and
> mine, "I have to use workarounds" are obviously different but we are both
> still able to use it for the tasks we have chosen.
>
> >> I have a host of coding paradigms that I enjoy using,
> >> (because they increase *my* efficiency) that I have to use workarounds
> >> for
> >> when coding in Euphoria. In other words, using Euphoria, I'm not as
> >> efficient as I know I could be. I'm just lucky that that is still
better
> >> than using C/C++.
> >
> > Here's how I see it: you are as efficient as you can be in EUPHORIA. So
> > far, that's good enough.
>
> I have a different set of expecations - just as valid as yours, of course.
>
>
> --
>
> cheers,
> Derek Parnell
>
>
>
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