OpenEuphoria

RE: Eu's poor design

• Posted by Andy Serpa <ac at onehorseshy.com> Aug 16, 2003
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Andreas Rumpf wrote:
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> Lets face it, at its current state, Euphoria is rather useless for 
> programming real applications, for several reasons:

Hmmm... I won't reiterate what others have already pointed out in their 
replies, but let's just say your comments are ill-informed enough and 
short-sighted enough for me to think that is you rather than Euphoria 
that is rather useless for programming real applications.  You obviously 
have not taken a very close look at Euphoria.

If you want to say that Euphoria is not perfect, then I'll agree.  (What 
language is perfect?)  If you want to say that Euphoria isn't fast 
enough for every type of application, then I'll agree (but for most 
applications it is very fast).  If you want to say that Euphoria isn't 
well suited YET to complex GUI programs under Windows, I'll agree.  (But 
we're getting there.)

I think if you work with Euphoria for a long time (as I have now) you 
begin to see a few things that maybe strike you as ad-hocism and could 
have been thought out better, and it certainly could use a few new 
features.  But it has a great core, wonderfully executed for what it is. 
 The Euphoria interpreter is one of the most stable pieces of software 
I've ever worked with.