OpenEuphoria

Re: Eu's poor design

• Posted by eugtk at yahoo.com Aug 16, 2003
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--- Andreas Rumpf <pfropfen at gmx.net> wrote:

> Lets face it, at its current state, Euphoria is
> rather useless for 
> programming real applications, for several reasons:

Clearly, it's been useless for you. I don't see your
name in 
a search of the user-contributions page. There are
lots 
of others there, however.

Just one example: take a look at Judith's IDE. That, 
with the Win32Lib, is easier to use, and more stable, 
than my $100 copy of Delphi. I'd say that Delphi is 
a real application - so I guess Judith's is also.

> It lacks:
> - Call by reference (the most important feature I
> want to add!):

Last time this subject came up, I took a look (with
grep) thru the million or so lines of code I have
written in the past 20 years - in only half a dozen
places have I used call-by-reference. And in those,
only one would I call "essential"  - meaning that
without it, the code would have been really ugly. 

Would I like to have cbr? Sure. 
Is it essential? No way.
It ranks just above goto on my wish list (sorry, Kat)

As for case sensitivity -
What you learned in QBasic doesn't apply to the real 
world. (Hint: there's a reason why those 'other'
languages are also case sensitive.)
Besides, anyone who can't remember how he spelled a 
variable is going to find the more complex programming
tasks even more frustrating. 

Irv