OpenEuphoria

Re: registration and requests

• Posted by Don Groves <groves at ACM.ORG> Feb 13, 1999
• 597 views

At 00:19 2/13/99 -0500, Robert Craig wrote:
>Carlos Valdes writes:
>
>> Why there is not something like:
>
>> repeat
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> until x>10    --condition tested at end of loop
>
>Euphoria tries to be a "minimal" language, where
>we avoid adding language features for things that can be handled
>almost as well by existing features.

Amen to that!  For those who want Euphoria to be more "maximal",
there's always Perl.  Perl was designed by a linguist (who is also
an excellent computer scientist) and the same Perl statement can
usually be written in many ways, just as in most human languages.
This can be both a blessing and a curse.  It can be a very complex
and confusing language, particularly to a newbie.  And Perl doesn't
have anywhere near the performance of Euphoria.  All that code in
the compiler to handle all that extra syntax does have a price.

I'm not knocking Perl, BTW.  It's one of my favorite languages and
certainly the best there is for processing text files.  But I'll
take Euphoria for it's speed, simplicity, and easy-to-understand
syntax for most of my programming.
--
Don Groves