From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-02-13T08:30:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting my sister to learn programming

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Could you show examples of things quicker to do in Eu... than in Ruby?


Aur Saraf

On 2/13/07, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/13/07, SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any advantage to Euphoria over Ruby?
> >
> > Having pass-by-value and copy-on-write seems like the only interesting
> bit
> > to me.
> >
> > Is there any reason at all for a Rubyist to learn it?
>
> None that I can see - it looks like a less powerful language, overall,
> and as I said, it'll take a *lot* for me personally to learn a new
> language that lacks proper lexical closures (the only one I'm even
> considering is D). On the other hand, it seems like a better successor
> to QBasic than either Ruby, Python or Scheme, or even the various VB
> clones, so as a first language it might get someone to the fun bits
> faster. I'd say the difference is that Ruby makes programming fun,
> whereas Euphoria makes getting a computer to do things fun.
>
> martin
>
>

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