Re: New to Euphoria
Thanks for your response.
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You're living dangerously. Those programmers are likely to
react badly to any criticism of their language of choice
(a.k.a. Job Security)
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Well, its a little less dangerous (G). I'm 16, and the guy I gave this t=
o
was my dad, who has his own little company. Just recently also, he told =
me
some of his people were working on C. Yesterday, I put two and two
together and sent him that file. I appended C.DOC to the end of the
message, and told him to delete the message if it didn't mean anything to=
him. Hey, if those pros know C++, according to you euphoria people,
shouldd be able to learn Euphoria, right?
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I wrote my first for-money program in BASIC, about 20 years
ago, a program to manage materials flow for a recycling firm.
I also realised I had reached the limits of BASIC - let's call
it the "brick wall". That's when it becomes almost impossible
to add even one more thing to your program without it
blowing up permanently. Or, in the case of BASIC, runs
so slowly no one wants to use it.
As soon as Borland began selling Turbo Pascal, with many
useful features, I moved to that, then COBOL (job requirement),
and more recently Delphi and others. All of these languages
have their own "brick wall", some just hit it sooner than others.
Euphoria is no exception; but it is a *huge* improvement over
BASIC, and way simpler than C.
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Hmmm. The writer must be a genius, then.
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If you don't know BASIC very well, you will have an easier
time learning Euphoria. Not so many bad practices to unlearn.
If you know C, Euphoria looks familiar, but with lots less
"dirty work" to do (type casting and pointer manipulation)
If you know Pascal, Euphoria looks very familiar, but
again, there's less type casting required.
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I know just QBasic, well, I think I know it. Like I said, I just complet=
ed
my first major program. I'm kind of stuck because I'm taking a class whi=
ch
teaches QBasic first semister and Visual Basic second. Do your comments =
on
BASIC apply to Visual Basic as well?
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If you're just starting, Euphoria will help you learn to write programs i=
n
a
"structured" manner - always a good thing.
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True. I like structured things, too, anything.
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Visit my Euphoria Programming Archives:
http://www.mindspring.com/~mountains
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Did you know there was a site called midwinter.com? Any relation?
--Alan
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