OpenEuphoria

Re: Newspaper column mentions Euphoria!

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jun 14, 2003
• 432 views

----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Getz" <Xaxo at aol.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: Newspaper column mentions Euphoria!


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>
> Hello there,
>
>
> Igor Kachan wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello Ricardo:
> >
> > Yes, you are right.
> >
> > There are rare translations of the "robust" word into
> > Russian similar to -- rough, crude, gross, harsh gruff
> >                      or   -- noisy, bustling, uproarious.
> >
>
> "Robust" translates to "Speed", unless you want to use
> asm, which then wouldnt really be using the language.
>
> The 'Robustness' of a language depends on how well integrated
> it is with the next lower system.

This is interesting. I thought of the term "robust" in this context as being
"not delicate" or "hard to break", or even "can do lots of things without
being concerned about its ability".

> I think an improvement for Eu here would be constant
> sequences (of a fixed element type) that would be accessable
> by pointer or something like that.  Probably a sequence
> of type ulong would be good enough to do a lot with.
> I guess it would be ok to call it an Array?
> That would of course add a new base type to Euphoria.

I agree, but this has nothing to do with robustness, in my opinion.
--
Derek