OpenEuphoria

RE: RDMS Database's and/or Record Managers What good is Euphoria?

• Posted by Ron Austin <ronaustin at alltel.net> Jan 22, 2004
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euphoric wrote:
> 
> 
> Euman wrote:
> 
> >>Is Euphoria powerful for business applications or just a play toy, not
> >>competing with Visual Basic or Delphi or?
> >>    
> >>
>  From my limited knowledge, I'd say that EUPHORIA is quite capable. 
> We've also got translation for added speed (if that ever were an issue).
> 
> >Ray wrote:
> >When you have 500 or 1,000 tables and 20,000 programs it can be
> >difficult to track down how an invoice number got deleted when it
> >shouldn't have.
> >  
> >
> Not because of quantity, but because of algorithm.
> 
> >Euman wrote:
> >Can you see anything written useing euphoria's speed for large projects 
> >anyway?
> >  
> >
> Yep. With a proper algorithm/approach.
> 
> >Ray wrote:
> >I personally don't think Euphoria can handle large complex systems.
> >  
> >
> I disagree a little bit. It's usually the programmer that can't handle 
> the large, complex system. I do agree that some languages can't do 
> certain things, or can't do certain things efficiently, but I don't 
> agree that EUPHORIA has demonstrated itself to be one of these. Of 
> course, I'm not programming huge apps for global corporations. I am 
> creating many functional programs, however, much more efficiently than 
> if I used any other language. That's what's important to me, because if 
> my programs will look and work the same regardless of what language I 
> use, I gotta go then with what I find good to use. The important thing 
> these days to any programmer is ease of development.
> 
> 
> Ray, I'd be interested in why you think Euphoria can't handle large 
> complex systems.  I just did a little counting, and my old app has 519 
> data files and 1106 programs.  It's used to operate a doctor's office.  
> The only problem I have found so far is that I don't know enought about 
> Euphoria and Winli32 to convert the programs quickly.  

I have tried Access and Visual Basic and couldn't get anywhere with 
them.  

With Euphoria I have found a wealth of information in the documentation, 
the samples, and the forum, where I can ask a question and actually get 
several good answers back.

So am I wasting my time doing this?  So far it seems that everything is 
working pretty good, especially the Tsunami record manager.