OpenEuphoria

RE: Eu 'Textbook' Prospects (Was: RE: GOTO - A fresh perspective?)

• Posted by Rod Jackson <rodjackson_x at hotmail.com> Feb 12, 2002
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encephalon1 at msn.com wrote:
> 
> Do you think that Eu is far enough along in the development process, 
> though?  From browsing through this list for some time
> now, I have gathered that there are still a few features missing that 
> make the language a little less 'competitive' than a
> few other more established language; of course, there are numerous 
> advantages as well.  The language is functional, but is it
> developed enough to catch the attention of the programming community as 
> a whole?

Well, I think so. For example, our library at college had a book about 
S-Lisp....

S-Lisp was an EXTREMELY simplified, purely functional version of Lisp. I 
think it only existed on the floppy disk that came with the book. It had 
almost no practical value--only a simple display ability for all I/O, 
less than two dozen keywords if I remember correctly. It was basically 
just a chance to understand some of the core concepts of Lisp and of 
functional programming in a neat, tidy environment. I had a lot of fun 
with it; actually, I wouldn't mind getting a copy of the book for 
myself, thinking back about it.

Surely, if a book like that can sell, one on Euphoria would probably do 
at least as well--especially with the fact that Euphoria is actually 
in-use.

Rod Jackson