Re: Euphoria questions
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999 00:31:32 +0700, Hendy Irawan <ceefour at INDO.NET.ID> wrote:
>Hi Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS, replying to your letter dated Jumat, 1
>Januari 1999...
>
>> Euphoria is a bit faster, probably because it takes about half
>> the code to accomplish the same thing as it does in Pascal.
>Ehm? In most cases? Or in few cases?
Most. Especially in programs of reasonable complexity - business
programs, for example.
>> Shorter "include" files = quicker loading.
>But anyways TP doesn't use "include files" = quicker execute. It just
>uses compiled code all the way, and all the "slowdowns" are all in the
>compiling process.
Exactly. That's why Euphoria is faster when writing and debugging code.
>BTW why did RDS choose interpreted thing?
Good question.
>> Yes. I would not hesitate to write a major program in Euphoria.
>> I may get a chance to do just that, because there are several
>> businesses still using programs I wrote years ago (in TP) which
>> I will need to update before the Y2K. Maybe I'll re-write some in
>> Euphoria.
>Hmm... After a few days working with Euphoria, I think it really seem
>to make EVERYTHING simpler. Most of it won't allow us to do "hacks" or
>things that are sometimes needed to do so... for example optimizing
>code for that. And so, there's no pointer. So, what's the replacement?
>I've been feeling very comfortable working with it.
Why do you need pointers? What hacks? Please give some examples.
>And, what's a "record", or "struct", "union" in Euphoria? Moreover
>there's no "object", "class", "interface", etc.
I think Euphoria should have structures, because they make code
clearer and easier to understand, and certainly make file i/o
easier.
You can implement objects and classes and VMT's if you want, but
after coding for 8 or 10 years using OO languages, I'm happy that
I am not required to use them in Euphoria.
>And how Euphoria will handle type mismatch? Even C/C++ will handle
>type mismatch between HGDIOBJ and HWINDOW (even though it's the same
>data type.
What type mismatch? You can define your own types in Euphoria, to make
them as strict as you want.
Irv
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