RE: Challenge for speed freaks
Irv's questions are good ones. I'd like to toss out some stuff of my
own.
I guess the first question to ask is what is the purpose of the other
languages. Python seems designed to be a glue language - it holds other
components together, many of them written in different languages.
Java seems meant to provide a cross-platform OOPL.
Perl seems most ideal for text processing.
What is Euphoria aimed at? I don't know. I know why I picked it up. I
wanted something simpler than C so I could control bugs. I wanted
something garbage collected, so I didn't have to learn memory
management. And I wanted something fast enough to do some light
simulation.
So speed and simplicity were the primary drivers - for me. Can't speak
for anyone else.
I started off learning Python, but it was taking too long to get to the
point of doing something with it.
Same with Rebol.
Java I spent time with, and actually got to the point of doing some
small tasks, but it was so slow and cluttered it didn't seem worth
continuing.
Guess I'm in the best language for the purpose camp. What is Euphoria
*best* at, better than other languages? I'm not smart enough to know. I
do know it's better at one thing. It's simpler and quicker to pick up,
and in most cases, easier to read.
I don't know if the readability scales, though. I tried reading the
source for a couple of the IDEs, and gave up. It was too much work for
too little reward.
And I don't use Eu for commercial apps, so I can't speak on that. In
fact, I've only actually completed a few projects with it, since I
program in my "spare" time.
Just curious, but what can Eu NOT do that it needs to do to attract more
people? Irv has talked before about the limits of Eu, but I don't recall
anything specific, probably because I'm not a programmer and it just
goes right over my head. What keeps people from building stuff other
than toys with it?
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