OpenEuphoria

Re[2]: Leave DOS?!

• Posted by akusaya at gmx.net Feb 22, 2006
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don cole wrote:
> Leave DOS!!!
> Are you out of your mind???
> DOS is the Basics.
> It would be like tring to read without learning the alphabet.

I think a new programmer will try things like:

- puts(1, "Hello world")
- fn = open("file", "r") while getc(fn) != -1 do ... end while
- ? {12,3,4,5}
- position(10, 30) puts(1, "I'm in center!")
- a = get(0)[2] b = get(0)[2] c = a+b printf(1, "%d plus %d is %d",
{a,b,c})

, all of them works in Windows and DOS.

RDS wrote:
> People who are new to Euphoria, or new to programming, will probably
> find it easier to develop a small program in DOS, rather than Windows.

Any reason why?

Beside problems with confusing long and short file names, it also
suffers from problems like going full screen and the user doesnt know
how to revert to windowed screen, or some users that know only
"DOS is old, Windows is new", and Eu uses DOS (for the demos, tutorials,
etc) therefore "Eu is old, dont use it". And some of my friends said
to me: "How does Euphoria looks like?" while they only knew IDE like
Visual Studio/C++/Basic or Netbeans for Java....