OpenEuphoria

Re: Suggestion for Future Implementation

• Posted by Ben Fosberg <BenFosberg at WORLDNET.ATT.NET> Jul 06, 2000
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I'm curious as to what you could do with a Euphoria DLL that you
can't do with a
Euphoria EXE. Maybe a dumb question, but it's been a long day, and I
can't seem
to get my head around the notion of writing a program in Euphoria
that "could support
Euphoria as a scripting/macro language."

Jeff Zeitlin wrote:

> Rob: How about implementing the Euphoria interpreter - or a large
> subset thereof - as a DLL or semantic equivalent (Linux .so?) on
> the supported platforms?  This would allow J. Random Appwriter to
> write an application - in any language, including Euphoria itself
> - that could support Euphoria as a scripting/macro language, much
> as has been done in the past with BASIC, REXX, LISP, and other
> languages.  Increased accessibility of the language - especially
> given that it is _not_ a difficult language to gain proficiency
> in - would allow for increased penetration into the marketplace,
> and potentially gain respect for Euphoria in that community that
> still considers it a "toy" language.
> --
> Jeff Zeitlin
> jzeitlin at cyburban.com