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5 stars
Version: Euphoria 3.0.1
"Easy to learn, easy to debug and fast ... and now open source"
Pros: Depends on what kind of application you are trying to build, Euphoria can be the best or the worst choice. I do not recomend this programming language if your application must have a lot of GUI elements, windows, dialogs or things like this. You will spend more time designing your GUI than programming the algoritms. Here I am talking about Windows GUI. For MSDOS programming there are a lot of libraries available for Euphoria...
For any other goal Euphoria is a good choice. There is a good Euphoria database system. There are a lot of libraries and solutions for almost any common problems. I have a complete dinamic website based on Euphoria, running faster than another one based on PHP for example.
I can't recommend this product highly enough because it's an interesting concept, easy to understand and use. No matter if you are an experienced C or C++ programmer or a beginer with no programming skils, you will spend only some days to learn Euphoria.
Easy to learn, easy to debug and fast. This is how it is.
Cons: Dealing with Windows dinamic link libraries is difficult. There are no complete Windows dll "wrappers", there are some good libraries for dealing with that, but you will always encounter a situation where some functions or some constants from Windows API are not defined...
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9 out of 13 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Euphoria 2.5
"Easy to learn, easy to debug and fast..."
Pros: Depends on what kind of application you are trying to build, Euphoria can be the best or the worst choice. I do not recomend this programming language if your application must have a lot of GUI elements, windows, dialogs or things like this. You will spend more time designing your GUI than programming the algoritms.
For any other goal Euphoria is a good choice. There is a good Euphoria database system. There are a lot of libraries and solutions for almost any common problems. I have a complete dinamic website based on Euphoria, running faster than another one based on PHP for example.
I can't recommend this product highly enough because it's an interesting concept, easy to understand and use. No matter if you are an experienced C or C++ programmer or a beginer with no programming skils, you will spend only some days to learn Euphoria.
Easy to learn, easy to debug and fast. This is how it is.
Cons: Euphoria interpreter should be open source... Only if you spend some money you can get the source code.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Euphoria 2.5
Pros: Euphoria is a small, simple, elegent, and fast programming language. Dynamic sequences makes the language powerful.
There is a binder, & Euphoria to C translator which makes standalone EXE or DLL files.
Cons: Very little in terms of professional development tools are provided in the package, such as IDE's, Windows/Linux editor, and packaging utilities. The standard library is aging, and offers only basic functionability. Windows/Linux support is bare bones, with no integrated OS API of anykind built in to the language, thus making it very challenging to produce a Windows/Linux GUI application. (Thanks to a dedicated team of people, a library called Win32Lib has wrapped a significant amount of the API for the Windows platform).
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5 stars
Version: Euphoria 2.5
"Easy, clear, powerful, and very fast"
Pros: The syntax is clear and regular, making for terse, very readable code. Terser than Pascal, immensely more readable than C (which is downright cryptic). Automatic garbage collection is a godsend and so is the Euphoria type "sequence" which I can best describe as typeless, dimensionless arrays. Writing in Euphoria takes me a fraction of the time it used to take in Borland Pascal -- perhaps one fourth -- and debugging is hardly ever needed.
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5 stars
Version: Euphoria 2.4
Summary: This thing rocked since I've ran DOS 5! read more
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