Re: How you discovered Euphoria? [was: Re: Please help me, who to start (Begin
ags wrote:
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> Chris Burch wrote:
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> > I started with GWBasix, moved to PCC, then Delphi - which I thought was the
> > bees knees, until I discovered C again (gcc on Linux), and finally I came
> > across
> > this 'hobby' language almost by accident - and to be quite honest, once you
> > start to grasp the sequence concept, and its ease of use of syntax, well I
> > haven't
> > look back since.
>
> I think it would be interesting to know how people 'discovered' Euphoria?
> Considering the miniscule marketing for it...
>
> I came across Euphoria in relation to the Morphit (sp) 3D modelling system,
> or someone's Euphoria wrapper (I presume now).
>
> I looked at some of the Euphoria examples and thought 'this looks like a
> simple and powerful language' which appealed to me from my Perl/C background.
>
> This emphasises the need for people who code killer apps, to make proud the
> fact that it was written in Euphoria!
>
> Gary
I don't remember very well, it has been a long time. I know I haven't produced
much code and I've made my criticisms, but I love Euphoria.
I was new to the internet at the time, and I was looking for a free programming
language for Windows. I don't think gcc had been ported to Windows yet, or at
least I hadn't heard about Cygwin or DJGPP. I had found Liberty Basic, and I
thought that it looked pretty good but I was looking for something that was "Free
as in beer". I found Euphoria version 1.4 or 1.5 and I fell in love with it.
Actually now that I think about it, I don't even think I was on the actual
internet at the time but I might have been using a free AOL disk, and Euphoria
was hosted at AOL?
Anyway, it's been all good from there.
j.
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