OpenEuphoria

Re: Breaking the silence

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at g?ail.c?m> May 18, 2008
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CChris wrote:
> 
> Peter Robinson wrote:
> 
> > So, the software tool (the language)
> > should allow him to map these thoughts to code as directly as possible,
> > without having to re-frame them or translate them into a different concept.
> 
> I'd like to see this principle overriding any simplicity based concept in the
> design of Euphoria. Quite a few things need to be done to this end.

I don't disagree with this sentiment, but we've obviously had disagreements
about how to translate something into code in the past.  It's relatively
easy to do this for a special purpose language or library.  Less so for
something meant to be general purpose.

But I don't think that we should ignore simplicity.  Especially when something
simple gets the same job done as something complex.  In general, simpler 
things are easier to remember, and easier to do correctly.  Also, different
people will see different methods of framing as direct maps.

Matt