OpenEuphoria

Re: Porting Euphoria

• Posted by Greg Phillips <i.shoot at REDNECKS.COM> Oct 28, 1999
• 582 views

My goodness, look at this, since yesterday, page accesses from
Freshmeat:

Download:   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com/v20.htm (301 hits)
Homepage:  http://www.RapidEuphoria.com/ (3187 hits)
Changelog:  http://www.RapidEuphoria.com/relnotes22.htm (27 hits)

Regards,
Greg Phillips

Robert Craig wrote:

> David Cuny writes:
> >    - How has the Linux port been recieved?
>
> I think it's too early to tell. Euphoria has been
> distributed to shareware sites and advertised
> as a language for DOS + Windows. Not many Linux
> programmers are aware of it. That may be changing
> however. As I type this, there's a huge horde of Linux hackers
> descending on the RDS site. I just announced
> 2.2 beta for Linux on freshmeat.net and the RapidEuphoria
> hit counter is going through the roof.
>
> >    - Any thoughts about the Macintosh?
>
> Not for the near future.
>
> >    - What about using Java bytecodes?
>
> Java byte codes are not a good match for
> Euphoria semantics. I guess your point though,
> is to facilitate porting to multiple
> platforms and to let you substitute Euphoria for
> Java on the Internet. I'm not planning to get into
> those things right now. After Linux, I want to
> spend some time on platform-independent things
> that will benefit all users.
>
> Regards,
>      Rob Craig
>      Rapid Deployment Software
>      http://www.RapidEuphoria.com