Re: A modal farewell
Mario Steele wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> After much consideration of what Euphoria is, what features have been
> requested time
> and time, and time again, and watching generations of Euphoria Programmers
> come and
> go, it has now come to my time to leave the Euphoria Community. As much as I
> have
> enjoyed programming in Euphoria, it is my general disappointment that features
> that
> are commonly requested, get tossed aside, without consideration to what the
> programmer
> has to go through. The language I've moved on to, is Ruby. It may not be as
> fast
> as Euphoria, but at this time, I'm willing to sacrifice speed, for actual
> programming
> Features.
>
> For thoes of you who are intrested, Ruby is a Object Oriented Language, that
> has a
> simple syntax, and easy to understand view. It's almost to easy to catch on
> with,
> if you understand Object Oriented languages. The reason why I choose Ruby,
> was partly
> for the fact that Ruby is an OOL, but it also has features that we've
> desprately requested
> from Rob in Euphoria, such as True Exception Handling, an excellent
> include/namespace
> system, Standard Libraries, that put Euphoria to shame, Full Thread Support,
> Cross
> Platform for Windows, Linux, and MacOS, and while it lacks any centralized
> Binding
> Feature, there are people who have ingenuitive designs for creating single
> executables,
> in one method or another. I can find myself actually understanding the code
> that I'm
> writting, and I'm not even begining to learn the language, or the features.
>
> I will still be around to help out the Euphoria community however I can, and I
> still
> have Euphoria 2.5, but I seriously doubt I will purchase another Euphoria
> product,
> unless there's some drastic changes, that includes features that both I
> myself, and
> many others have requested. And like they say, if history repeats itself (As
> it has
> many times with Euphoria), I'm not seeing that happening anytime soon. So,
> till the
> next time, Have fun programming, and don't let the language dictate to you,
> what you
> need, let you dictate to the language, what you need.
>
> Mario Steele
> <a
> href="http://enchantedblade.trilake.net">http://enchantedblade.trilake.net</a>
> Attaining World Dominiation, one byte at a time...
>
Sorry to see you go, I'm sticking around for various reasons.
Not that you care or anything, but I find 2 problems with Ruby: 1) it is too
slow, 2) its syntax is bad IMHO.
Here are some benchmark results
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heapsort (100000)
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Euphoria is ~7.6115x faster than Ruby.
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fibonacci (32)
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Euphoria is ~14.1044x faster than Ruby.
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ackermann (3, 10)
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Euphoria is ~28.4510x faster than Ruby.
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sieve (900)
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Euphoria is ~58.7021x faster than Ruby.
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As for a code example:
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#!/home/d/docx/bin/ruby -w
#
=begin
Description: Get an array of files that match a pattern from a directory
=end
files = Dir["*"]
files.delete_if {|x| x !~ /\d+[a-z]?\.rb/}
files.sort.each {|x| print x, " -- " }
puts
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If you ask me, PureB is a much better contender. 
Jason Gade: Have you finished those benchmarks?
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sources: http://centrin.net.id/~marc/performance.html
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/bench.txt
http://www.io.com/~docx/ruby/005.rb
Regards,
Vincent
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