RE: Re:
On Sun, 01 Apr 2001, chris_esen at hotmail.com wrote:
> Hey Ray and Guilermo,
>
> It's funny you mentioned Visual Basic as being bloatware. I once made a
> HUGE database program for a client, and it easily broke 25 Megs. I think
> 12mb of it was for dependencies, such as DAO. Not only was it large, it
> was a resource hog. Also, I consider using Delphi, but my first
> programming language was C++, and we were taught to hate Pascal. ;)
> Delphi and Object Pascal aren't bad though.
Delphi shares some of the same problems as VB, in that there are tons
of DLL's that must go along with even a simple program. Euphoria
programs can be bound into single small files, 200 ~ 400 k, which can
easily be sent to customers via e-mail. Makes updates and changes
very pleasant. Also, I have used Delphi since the first version, and
the later versions tend to be increasingly flaky - to the point that I've
lost source code more than once due to Delphi's misbehavior.
> I never do any Database programming in C or C++, so I may use Visual
> Basic, and Java just isn't fast enough for this project.
> I think I'll pick up on Euphoria this evening after lunch and see if it
> will be suitable for my needs. I have a week for planning, so if this
> goes sour I'll submit to Visual Basic or COBOL (haha, j/k).
If you could give a little more detailed description of the scope of the
project, maybe someone here could confirm that Euporia worked for
them on a similar project, or perhaps that it would be unsuitable.
> > Ray Smith wrote:
> > >From my personal view I wouldn't start a major development project until
> > Win32Lib is a little more stable. Others might disagree??
I have a Euphoria program that has been running 12hrs a day for the past two
years without (cross fingers) losing any data , or requiring any database
rebuild. I used Dave Cuny's original Win32Lib to build the program and have
kept the code updated to run with the latest Win32lib version. So far, the
changes have been minimal, and there have been no problems associated
with bugs in Win32Lib. Of course, I avoid taking advantage of the newly added
functions for a while, until there can be bug reports and fixes posted here.
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Regards,
Irv
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