OpenEuphoria

Re: Challenge for speed freaks

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Feb 15, 2002
• 467 views

On 15 Feb 2002, at 13:28, Robert Craig wrote:

<snip>

> OK Irv, you win.
> Since Euphoria isn't the most "popular" language in the world,
> there must be something tragically wrong with it,
> and I might as well quit.
> 
> You should go to Salt Lake City and tell all the athletes
> who didn't get a medal that they've wasted their time
> and should quit too.

Or do like i do, and ignore nearly everyone. Rob, the language could use a 
few more commands. The gui came along to enable easier use. Basic was 
not meant as a mainstream language, but even microsoft has a Basic 
language, two: vbs and vb. People want to get a programming task done, 
they don't wanna learn a new complex puter language philosophy. 

Karl, can goto use the contents of a variable as a target, please? sorta 
pseudo-case-like? 

s = {"money","monkey","trap","tree"}
if match(input,s) 
  then goto eval(input) 
  else -- process error
end if

-- targets follow --
:money:
:monkey:
etc

Like i said 2yrs(?!) ago here, it should be easy to make interpreters smart, 
and make radical code for the programmer easy. I mean really, i have code 
out there that lets channel ops spec what word they wish to use to control 
script behaviour in a bot, in whatever language they wish. But it's written in 
mirc.

Kat