Re: Is there an Euphoria compiler?
Alan Tu wrote:
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> Is there, and if not, will there ever be, an Euphoria compiler? It seems
> to me that tacking on the whole interpreter to a program is not efficient.
>
> --Alan
>
Alan,
What is good or efficient depends on your goal. For example, if you want
to move your belongings to another address, a large truck is efficient.
If you want to drive from the east coast to the west coast, a large
luxury car is efficient. Neither one is efficient for the task that the
other one was built for.
Euphoria follows a common practice of binding. A few other such programs
that pop into my head are REXX, Cenvi, O'Basic, some other basics I have
toyed with. Euphoria is very efficient for the task it is designed for.
If you want compiled programs and their much more cumbersome process,
then get Pascal, C, Visual Basic, etc. By the way, Visual Basic (I don't
know about the current version), tokenizes its code, interprets it, and
calls it compiled. But then look how cumbersome it is.
Euphoria qualifies as what programmers once referred to as elegant. It
is, a program that I can quickly and easily develop solid programs.
Euphoria is very eficient for such tasks. If I want to spend 10 times
more time writing programs that are more buggy, but that produce small
and lightning fast executables, then I will use Pascal or an optimize C
compiler.
I guess it all depends on what your goal is, what you mean by efficient.
--
Terry Constant
constant at flash.net
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