Serious development
Hi all,
Here it is a holiday in the USA, so take your time about replying. 8^) (I
write this to encourage those who don't look at their email right away to go
ahead and add their comments anyhow.)
I'm embarking on (have already embarked on) the development of a fairly
complex *commercial* application that will require database connectivity and
a sophisticated GUI.
An important factor to consider is that I am constrained to doing this on a
thin shoestring budget.
I am finding Euphoria to be excellent for prototyping and rapid development.
However, I wonder:
1. how practicable it will be to complete this project in Euphoria,
2. if development is likely to proceed as rapidly when I get into the
serious detail work, and
3. exactly which tools to use, since development on at least the GUI aspects
of the programming environment (language and associated libraries) seems to
be currently moving ahead at a rapid pace. Should I use an older, proven and
stable version of the GUI, or a new and soon-to-be proven and stable
version?
4. should I go OOP or not? I am inclined to pass on this option, since the
bulk of my background is in procedural programming, I'm more comfortable in
that world, and can and do accomplish almost everything procedurally that
OOP gives one the opportunity to do. And if I did go OOP, I would go almost
certainly work in Eiffel (the premiere OOP language, as far as I am
concerned), unless someone manages to convince me otherwise. (I have already
formed well-considered opinions about Java, C++, Visual Basic, and
Smalltalk. I don't know too much about Delphi, except that I have quit using
a favorite shareware program written in that language because it is too
unstable, and I suspect it of heinously trashing one of my computers. How
badly that reflects on the language vs. the programmer, I don't know.)
Thanks for your comments. I will consider all recommendations, and if on the
basis of your advice I follow a path that doesn't work out, I will continue
(discounting probable griping) to love you anyway.
George Henry
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