RE: Challenge for speed freaks
SR.Williamson wrote:
> 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.
Python is a general purpose scripting language.
People have written SQL servers, web servers,
I think from memory the old www.onelist.com mailing list was running
Python. It was processing numerous emails every second on a low
end pentium. The statistics where staggering.
Python, as you say is also good for "glueing" other pass together.
> Java seems meant to provide a cross-platform OOPL.
Java's big claim to fame is portability.
> What is Euphoria aimed at? I don't know. I know why I picked it up.
Like Python Euphoria is a general purpose language. I don't think
there is enough of a sales pitch on the eu web site telling
everyone how good it is, and the "vast??" range of areas people are
using Euphoria for.
If you have a look at all these other languages web sites there are
numerous "sales: types of documents telling you how great the
world is. That would be nice for eu.
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 agree that this is Euphoria's greatest asset.
Ray Smith
http://www.geocities.com/ray_223
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