OpenEuphoria

Re: Those of us who are C'ly challenged :>

• Posted by Nate Brooman <nateb at LOG.ON.CA> Jul 16, 1998
• 628 views

Listen, I code my way, you guys code your way.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL>
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Date: July 16, 1998 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: Those of us who are C'ly challenged :>


>>One main reason why I think that C is better then Eu is that you can
>declare
>>stuff below the initial procedure. I.E.:
>
>And this man thinks he knows what makes a language structured ?
>If C is so very structured why the need for the OO to make C++
>Have you ever used the switch statement ? Or wondered if there are
>enough }'s ?
>And since when is freedom of ordening (what you like so much about C)
>considered structured.. and why do all C programs have such a fixed
>indentation ? Why, is this structured language otherwise confusing to read
?
>C is structured from a processor's view, not from an algorithm
>point-of-view..
>It is structured is such way it can easily be translated to ASM.
>Euphoria is much more structured and consistent..
>
>Take a 'for' statement:
>end_var = 10
>for index = 1 to end_var do
>    endvar = 1
>end for
>
>In Euphoria it will still go to 10 as it should..
>In C however it will cycle through it only ONE time..
>Can you image if it was a function call, or some other very expensive call
?
>
>Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen
>nieuwen at xs4all.nl
>