Re: OT: Learning programming languages
- Posted by Andrew Katz <Akatz712 at gmail.com> Apr 13, 2007
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I am not sure if this is the forum to debate C vs Euphoria. Each has its strengths. Euphoria is a higher level language which takes what was most annoying about C and abstracts it. For example, character string manipulation. I just wrote an application which uses BOTH C and Euphoria. The advantage to C is that I had access to an interactive debugger (Watcom is the best). But I was drawn to Euphoria, because someone here developed a Microsoft Windows WYSIWYG code generating IDE similar to what one finds for Visual Basic. I have never found anything like that available for free for C programmers. Finally, the real debate is object vs procedural programming languages. And because I am a procedural person whose eyes glaze over when looking at object oriented code like C++, I found Euphoria very easy to learn. Euphoria is in the same class of programming languages as C is. Andy Katz B.S. Computer Science, 1978 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)