OpenEuphoria

Re: History of Euphoria?

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Sep 23, 2004
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Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> Greg Haberek wrote:
> 
> > Since we've been discussing tutorials and newbies lately, I have to
> > poke my head in here. I recall seeing a breif history of Euphoria at
> > one point, but I can't seem to find it now. It recalled Rob creating
> > Euphoria as college project (master thesis?) in order to prove that an
> > interpreted language could be simple and fast. If anyone can point me
> > to this webpage/document, it'd be much appreciated.
> 
> I'm also much interested in this topic. This is the most comprehensive
> source that I'm aware of (line may wrap):
> 

Robert was inspired by John Backus' FP system.
Here is the original paper that describes FP. (2.9MB)
 
 http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf

And here is an implementation of FP. 

 http://christophe.deleuze.free.fr/D/fp.html

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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia