Re: winsocks again
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From: Jon Banquer <jbtech at mpinet.net>
To: <KSMiTH at PELL.NET>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: winsocks again
> > frustrated enough now to go to Delphi
>
> What advantage do you see Euphoria having
> over Delphi ? I see none...except price.
No types, if that's what i want for a variable.
Re-sizeable data, no pre-determined variable sizes or field counts.
Garbage collection.
No OOP required.
An active listserv (i can't get to "newsgroups").
The smart people on this listserv.
Price.
Size.
I can include data as to "inheritance" or "descendants" in *my* code, making
it possible to have intrinsic overriding and multiple
inheritances/descendants in *my* scripting hierarchies.
(Btw, mirc has all this too, but it's not made to use in a large
application.)
Three OSs supported, so if i make something worth selling, i have a wider
audience.
Disadvantages to Eu?:
No truely easy string arrays. Sequences are great, mostly, but don't lend
themselves to multi-dimensional arrays very well, imo. For instance, even
tho you can subscript a seq, you can't grab the error and resume if you
access a out-of-bounds subscript. (Mirc returns $null if you access
something not there, it's easy to test for.) They don't need to take up any
memory till you put something in them,, but then they take up 32bits for an
8bit ascii char (not considering Chinese chars here).
No "goto" command. 
Until Brian sent me the winsock script last nite, the socks programming in
Eu just didn't make sense to me. It may still not make sense to me, i
haven't studied it yet,, but it works now.
Kat,
not giving up on Eu just yet....
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