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Hi:
I have been around for 2 years in this list and I can say that many of
the request have been done before, in some way or another. The thing is
that, as all of us have different needs in different times, the requests
to modify Eu vary widely.
I would ask, Is there really a need to modify the language?
If we ask Bill to change VB, would he change it immediately?
I think tha main justification to change is in the objectives to reach,
as an example I would invite you to try the basic to Eu converter that
is in the archive. As most of the old programs built with QBasic use
gotos it is practically impossible to mantain a program once converted
if it is a little complex (when the conversion works and runs).
That is if you are using Euphoria to generate to or from some language,
you need, at least, to depend on similar structures, so you need a very
flexible target language, and Eu is not, being structured and "minimal"
(I like the Idea: a kind of RISC in a high level language).
In the past there has been arguments about OOP, structures, indexing,
etc.
(I particularly liked the one on notation x[5..] and x[..11], the lack
of repeat...until..... and case, etc).
On the other side I would like thank everyone that has the patience to
contribute to this list. Bye the way, has anyone made a B-tree
algorithm, to be shared?
Is anybody working with the JVM or making a *.java to *.class compiler,
or a C to Eu converter? (again goto needed, to be able to respect the
original structure of a program already working. Why change it?) I think
these are interesting Projects.
I really enjoy all contributions (even religious or political,
preferently technology related), although I accept that this is not the
place for some of them.
I use Eu when I see that no other language lets you solve it faster
(mosly file filtering, searching, reformatting, simple games,
calculations).
My 0.00002 cents.
(Do not worry, I will not do much noise).
Thanks
Carlos Valdés
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>>Kat,
>>growl.
>>working on that "quality code and experienced skills" prior to
distribution.
>Kat,
>I take back every evil thing that I ever said about you. Hooray to your
>sentiments. I still think you are wrong about goto, but I'll be glad to
>continue to discuss it until one of us convinces the other or not as
the
>case may be. I really would appreciate some attempt to answer my
>ast foray against your logic. In an interpretive language, commenting
>out works really nicely. Of course, block comments would make it
>easier.
>Regards,
>Everett L.(Rett) Williams
>rett at gvtc.com
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