OpenEuphoria

Re: Death by Gaming

• Posted by Jack Cat <catjackus at yahoo.com> Jan 06, 2001
• 497 views

>         Oh, how true. What I meant thought was all
> the people who download a programming language and
> think that in 3 weeks they can make the next hottest
> 3d-shooter.

Hehe!
That's exactly how I was...
Euphoria was my first porgramming language ever!
I searched in yahoo for "free compiler" and wound up
at  The Free Compilers And Interpreters page. I saw
Euphoria on that page, and immediatly downloaded it.
The docs were a pain to read through, and I wasn't
getting any wiser, so I downloaded ABGTE and two weeks
later I knew every aspect of Euphoria programming.
Remember that this was way back in the 1.x days.
There was no Eu for Windows so when I wanted to take
advantage of DX and stuff, I had to learn C++ and
bought VC++ 5.0. Then later I learned a pile of other
languages and got many degrees and stuff, but that 3D
shooter I started out coding for never got to be :(
I learned C++ in a month, and unlike Euphoria, where
the biggest prog I ever coded was 300 lines, I wrote a
6.000 line 3D Model Editor using DX in VC++ in just a
few weeks.
It still crashes about 2000 times a second, but it
works...

Eu is one of those languages that make you feel
euphoric and think: "YEAH! LET'S CODE A KILLER APP
WITH THIS SMALL PUPPY!", but then later after a few
lines of code, you realise that the features you need
aren't present in Euphoria and that you should fire up
VC++ again instead. Features like Direct X support.
Sure there is Exotica, but who wants to ship a
third-party DLL with their software? Not me. And what
about DX8.0?
All Eu realy, realy needs, aside from all the other
things, is ActiveX support. Sure Microcrap sucks
donkey ass, but they do have great SDKs, and all new
ones are COM based. I myself would value DX8.0, Kat
would find the Speech SDK (written by yours
truly...well, partially) a great enhancement to her AI
code, and so on and so on.

And there's no easy way to implement COM support in
Euphoria. It should be compiler-based.


Mike The Spike

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