RE: Eu 'Textbook' Prospects (Was: RE: GOTO - A fresh perspective?)
Irv Mullins wrote:
> If I should need an app which can connect to a website, search for
> some keyword(s) and download a page, I know that it can be done in
> Python, with just a handful of lines of code, and it will work.
> Can I say the same thing about Euphoria?
Yes, euTcp4u. From memory I think there was a WININET.DLL version to.
> So, if my needs include anything to do with the internet, then, yes,
> Python is better. Because it is more complete.
As far as I cam remember there are libraries for TCP comms, FTP and
SMTP.
I know they aren't as fully developed as the Python libs but still
very useful.
I know this was just one example Irv and in princible I agree with
your point of view.
> If I need to do some graphics, or a GUI, then objects (not the Euphoria
> kind)
> make the task much easier.
> Pascal has 'em, C++ has 'em, Python has 'em,
> Euphoria doesn't. So which would be "better"?
When you get down to actually writing programs with the Python GUI's
you start to realise that Euphoria isn't that far behind.
It's not easy!
Classes are a very nice feature of a language. I can't see how
implementing classes would break any existing Euphoria code.
I have no idea how difficult it would be for Rob to implement but
I for one think it would be a good step.
Saying that I can't see Rob doing it.
>I'm not the only one who has tried this, the
> others just gave up and moved on long ago.
One point to consider is the number of languages available is huge
and they are all improving all the time.
You can download full C / C++ / Pascal / Python / Java languages
with integrated IDE's and full on screen debugging completely free.
There are numerous free resources for newbie's (and the not so
newbies's) to refer to. It's tough to convince someone to use one
language over another.
Ray Smith
http://www.geocities.com/ray_223
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