OpenEuphoria

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)