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At work, I use Euphoria a lot, but almost always just for 'quick &
dirty' small jobs: filters, repetitive little calculations, sorting
and searching. Also plenty of data formatting and re-formatting,
because a lot of my colleagues, scientists and engineers, are locked
into this peculiar time warp called 'fortran' (enormous legacy of
technical programs!), and as you all know, fortran is very finicky
about its data formats...
But these programs almost never leave my office, because somehow it
seems quite ridiculous, almost embarrassing, to have a twenty line
program bound into a 180 kbyte monster. - So, if it has to be light or
if it must go out of the door, it is back to one of my old, trusted
Borland compilers.
I also tried the obvious alternative, but every time I start talking
about Euphoria, the conservative crowd around me recoils in horror:
they all think I must be a drug pusher! EUPHORIA..! Very nice, but
also a very unfortunate name these days in Aotearoa.
With some interesting exceptions: from time to time a computer
illiterate colleague wants to know how a particular program or routine
works. Generally, I find such people can easily follow the flow of
Euphoria programs (with a reasonable selection of identifier names and
just a few well placed comments), while fortran, C or even pascal
source would induce blank stares.
Why do you want to know, Irv? jiri
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