Re: Let me try once more
George Henry wrote:
> That's fine, esp. for those who are interested
> in implementing their own language.
One of the things that drew me to Euphoria was the fact that you can
implement LISP-ish executable data structures. I'm suprised that more people
haven't taken advantage of this. For example, I could easily imagine a
Prolog sort of inference engine being built into Euphoria, or a simple
scripting language.
I suspect that your average user would prefer to work with a macro language
that looked like BASIC or C instead of Euphoria. Actually, a typical user
would rather deal with 'wizards' than code, so that's all a bit irrelevant.
In any event, Robert has stated on a number of occasions that he's not
interested in adding the feature to the language, so exploration of options
is probably more productive than banging your head against a wall asking for
features.
> Also, I am not a Lisp programmer (yet), but I
> have read a bit about it, and I believe there
> is quite a bit more to it than your example implies.
Things do get a bit more complex when you start dealing with variables and
user-defined functions, but at the core, it's the same eval routine grinding
away. You can look at Eu and Py for some real-world examples.
-- David Cuny
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