Re: Changes to Euphoria
Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
>
> MBianchi wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> Me too!
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> I'm sorry. I've played with many, many languages but all of the ones you
> listed,
> I have not. Honestly, I do not know what a vector language is.
>
> > 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.
>
> There is a new library called sequence.e which contains many functions that
> work on sequences. I am unsure if any of those would be what you are thinking,
> since I am not experienced in vector languages.
>
> > 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 ...?
> >
>
> Can someone else answer this who understands vector languages?
>
> --
> Jeremy Cowgar
> <a href="http://jeremy.cowgar.com">http://jeremy.cowgar.com</a>
Haven't read this whole thread yet, but found this reference which also
mentions Euphoria:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CollectionOrientedProgramming
it's from:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ArrayOrientedLanguage
Dan Moyer
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