OpenEuphoria

Re: Changes to Euphoria

• Posted by MBianchi <mebian at ?i?calinet.it> May 29, 2008
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After reading all the threads regarding the changes in Eu 4.0, I'd like to add
my 1/2 cent.

Please, forgive me, I'm really new to Eu, even if I went back and forth from it
for several times now, so my doubt is *for sure* a naive one, and my english too
bad.

I was first attracted to Eu for speed, and for the ability to use an interpreter
*and* a real compiler, but the most important feature of the language soon became
its 'devotion' to sequences.

This made me (erroneously?) think that Eu could have its place in vector
languages, like APL, J, K, Q etc. etc., with its own character and extentions
toward procedural languages, but nevertheless in the array languages pool.

Reading past threads I noticed that Rob himself had a deep experience with APL,
so some sort of inheritance of good ideas from it could be a supposition even
more reasonable.

In all recent discussions I saw on Euforum, I did not see any proposal for
better sequence ops, or some improvements on sequencing in itself though, but
many, reasonable or not, I'm not in the position of expressing an honest opinion,
about procedural structures.

Just out of curiosity, am I totally wrong in thinking Eu in the vector language
family, or are Eu sequences already at the best we can achieve (really, no flame
intended at all), or ...?

TIA, and

Cheers.
MBianchi