OpenEuphoria

Re: fixed windows

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Aug 06, 2003
• 359 views

Hi Derek, you wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matt Lewis"
>
>> kbochert at copper.net wrote:
>>
>>> I have always felt that a big part of Eu's popularity was its
>>> low-level ability -- run on dos, write console apps, poke memory,
>>> etc. Maybe not.
>>
>> I like the feeling that I can usually focus on an algorithm without
>> having to fight the language (at least more so than with other languages
>> I have tried).  It largely has to do with the flexibility of the
>> datatypes, but also the clean, clear syntax.
>
> Wirth also developed Pascal because he felt that structured data was
> just as important as structure programming. He'd hate Euphoria's
> dynamically typed data structures. But I agree with you in that the
> fluid nature of Euphoria's datatypes makes so many coding problems just
> disappear.

Interesting, that you say so! That's exactly the experience, that I made.
Formerly using Basic, I was often faced with problems, that I didn't
know how to solve. Now using Euphoria, several problems simply do not
appear at all. It's kind of magic for me. 

> It would be nice if we could have both dynamically typed and
> statically typed data in the same language. There is a place for both.

I believe structures for instance are statically typed data, right?
IMHO such data types are especially important, when it comes to
communication with the rest of the programming world (read: programs
written in C).

Best regards,
   Juergen

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