Re: Are there any commercial applications written in Euphoria?
- Posted by "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jan 29, 2004
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----- Original Message ----- From: "I Mullins" <eugtk at yahoo.com> To: <EUforum at topica.com> Subject: RE: Are there any commercial applications written in Euphoria? > > > Juergen Luethje wrote: > > > Sorry, I don't understand. Can you explain, in laymans terms, what it > > means that a programming language supports multiple users? > > Eu doesn't support record locking, for example. Nor, for that matter, > does it actually have 'records'. Neither does it have networking > capabilities. > > Sure, there are libraries with varing degrees of completeness, and > you can always do as RDS suggests and write your own, but if I am > writing software for money, it's more productive to use something > like VB or Delphi or even FileMaker, which come with those things > (and much more) built in. > To be pedantic, VB, Delphi and C/C++ also do not support record locking or networking. These capabilities are provided via 'library' code that is external to the language. PICK and some COBOL variants have record locking capabilities built into the language's syntax though. REBOL has networking built-in to its syntax. -- Derek