OpenEuphoria

RE: Irv's reply

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Mar 25, 2002
• 348 views

a.tammer at hetnet.nl wrote:
> Hello Irv, you wrote:
> 
> >Why on earth did you bother?
> >C is faster,
> >C is free,
> >C has all the pointers anybody could ever want.
> 
> A: 1) Simply because the point of it came up on the forum
>     2) I wanted to give it a try
>     3) Though C ` Has it all ` I like the readability of EU
>     4) I had to get my mind of the 2 projects I'm working on
>         and this seemed to be the way to do it

Yes - sorry if this sounded harsh. A lot of us are here 
just because we want to get away from the hassles and bugs 
that things like 'pointers' introduce to programming. 

That doesn't mean that Euphoria is free of its own hassles 
and bugs, however. Look at the awkwardness of trying to 
interface with C structures. That should be built into the 
language, I think, not left as an 'exercise for the user'.

Regards,
Irv