OpenEuphoria

Re: Stupid Newbie-sounding question.

• Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Jun 02, 2004
• 558 views

Derek Parnell wrote:

> This is true. And there is the trade off - speed & flexibility against
> structure and complexity. Think of it in terms of a bicycle without
> training wheels and one with training wheels 

Let's ignore for the moment the fact that certain kinds of structure 
and complexity may actually make the coding experience more flexible 
and less complex, and tackle the issue of speed:

> RDS has chosen speed. Meaning that the coder has more responsibility to
> provide quality assurance than the translator does. Yes this does mean
> more work for the coder and better discipline.
> 
> Would you prefer a slower Euphoria if it had structures, strings and
> an improved type system? If so, you may have to wait until v2.5 comes out
> and someone adds these to the slower version.

My impression is that RDS cares far too much about speed, and too little 
for other factors which may be more important to the bulk of users.
That might explain why the same languages which RDS proclaims to be 
"10 to 30 times" slower than Euphoria also happen to be 10 to 30 
(or maybe 100) times more popular.

And even if speed was an overriding concern when Euphoria was 
designed, surely it isn't all that important anymore, when even 
the cheap WalMart price-busters run at 2.7 ghz.

Irv