OpenEuphoria

Re: Changes

• Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Jul 18, 1998
• 541 views

Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen wrote:
>
> So, what will be the changes for Euphoria 2.1 or 3 ?
> (what can we expect first?)
>
Things that would be on my wish list:
 1.enumerated constants
 2. constants local to routines (I use these a lot in other languages)
 These would eliminate a lot of messy workarounds.

I mention these first because they seem so easy to implement.
Now for the good stuff:

Linux version. My reasoning:
 Euphoria is a somewhat weird language - you have to do a lot of things
yourself.
 Linux users are somewhat weird people - they like to do a lot of things
themselves.
 Perfect match, it would seem.
 Besides, Linux is certain to become much more popular, now that
micro$oft has
 released its new unworkable operating system. I even have clients
asking if I
 can install Linux on their computers - they are fed up with the
constant broken
 Windows. (Where did they even hear of Linux?)

An alternative:
 Write a file system for Euphoria. Toss DOS. Sell Euphoria to run on all
sorts of
 single-board, imbedded, dedicated controllers, data loggers, and such.
There are
 a lot of companies out there who *must* have an OS to make their
computer-controlled
 widget chippers run. Preferably a really small and simple OS.

Just a thought.
Irv