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Re: Serious development

• Posted by Al Getz <xaxo at AOL.COM> Nov 23, 2000
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The most important question is what are you developing?

If you need high speed or need to do any large picture
filtering then you wont want to use Euphoria unless you can
isolate these areas and code them in another language like C,
and then link them to a Euphoria coded GUI.  I'm considering
coding a chess program like this because the chess engine
needs to be very very fast, while the GUI operates at
less then human reflex speed, hence i assign the GUI tasks
to Euphoria and the engine to C++ and/or assembler.


Another area to explore is coding in Euphoria with the advanced
knowledge that you will translate (by hand) the resulting code
into C or C++.  If you stick to certain styles of programming
its a breeze to convert all the statements to C and compile.
The nice thing is you can fully test the program in Euphoria
before converting to C, thus making sure all the ideas work ok,
then convert to C line by line.  It doesnt really take that long.
Using a set programming style and you have almost a line by line
correspondence between the two languages.  I wouldnt be surprised
if you could write your own mini translator to handle a controlled
style of programming.  I started one of my own quite a while back.

I converted a very complex program to C++ line by line and it made
the overall task simpler.  In that particular program i used
single dimensional sequences of fixed length to make converting
to C++ arrays very simple.  Variable length arrays arent always
needed anyway.

Good luck with it, and let us know how its comming along.

--Al