OpenEuphoria

Re: First ever IRC meeting has finished

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cowgar.c??> Apr 28, 2008
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Jason Gade wrote:
> 
> Nothing, except that it is more complicated than the status quo and my own
> proposal.
> Euphoria doesn't need a different program extension for every combination of
> OS and console/gui application type and whether a given file is an include or
> an executable.
> 
> Let's not regress twenty-plus years here.

But you said that .ex will link to the DOS interpreter, therefore, it's not
cross platform?

Maybe before we go down this route further, what does ex.exe do that exwc.exe
does not? Anything?

My point on IRC was that the file extensions are way to numerous. For instance,
ruby, python, lua... they do not have different extensions for every platform
they run on. And that's further agervated by the current scheme that we have no
true cross-platform extension.

So... Is it possible to do everything that ex.exe does with exwc.exe? Therefore,
linking .ex to run Dos, Windows and Linux apps would work just fine if .ex was
run by exwc.exe?

Therefore, no need for exu or exw even.

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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com