OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria and Ruby

• Posted by eugtk at yahoo.com Aug 28, 2003
• 335 views

--- dark at cyax.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Has anyone here used Ruby?  How does it compare to
> Euphoria?

Yes.
It's slower, but that doesn't often matter.
Ruby code is not as 'clean' looking as Eu, but not 
as bad as perl. Just a few $_ and @signs thrown in.
Ruby is fully object-oriented, if that matters to you.

There is a *lot* more to learn, compared to Eu, but 
that means you can do things with Ruby that you can't 
with stock Eu - regular expressions, for example, and 
internet connectivity. A Ruby book is almost a
necessity, but I can get by without one for Euphoria.

I wrote a program which extracts and totals orders
from our website's shopping cart database; the Ruby 
version was shorter than the Eu version by about 10%, 
and the Ruby code was easier to understand.

Irv