OpenEuphoria

Re: What's wrong with Euphoria??? Newbie perspective...

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Jan 24, 2005
• 538 views

EU-NOW wrote:
> 
> I'm not an experienced programmer and simply dabbled into programming over
> the years. I've used scripting languages like AutoHotKey, AutoIT, WinBatch
> (Nasty licensing like Euphoria), etc...
> 
> My goal is to find the easiest, but most powerful tool that can accomplish
> what I need to get done.

>From not a profesional programer prospective. I started off with a
Timex Sinclair until I found out it didn't have enough memory do 
anything. Then I got a Commador 64 in which I delved into machine
language and Basic. Then I moved to Atari 1200 learned Atari Basic.
On to a Mac SE w/Mac Basic. Finally a PC w/Liberty Basic that I found too
slow and then I found Euphoria. The answer to all my prayers, a 
language
fast enough and could be written by stupid clutz like me.

> The
> alternatives are Visual Basic, various flavors of Basic, Object Pascal,
> etc...  Visual Basic/.NET, VBScript, etc..
> There is a major freeware and open-source effort
> to clone Delphi and Object Pascal, aka Lazarus
> <a
> href="http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/">http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/

 I am sure that there are other languages out there that are better.
But life is too short for me to download and learn them all.
So I am sticking with Euphoria.
 Are you listening Rob?

Don Cole
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