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- From: crandall@mail.msen.com (Chad Randall)
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- Subject: Re: Visual E - New E Developer Tool - vedev.gif (0/1)
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 02:25:24 GMT
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- Jolyon Ralph (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
- : > > Great! But any chance of writing a version that uses a language
- : > > suitable
- : > > for grown-ups, like C or C++? :-)
- : >
- : > I am sure, that you never had a close look to E as it is of V3.2.....
- :
- : Well, actually, I have. I'm using E version 3.2b registered.
- :
- : My current project is nearly 20,000 lines of E code (!!!!) much of which
- : I wrote myself, I've been using E commercially since 1994, so I know what
- : I'm talking about! (It wasn't my choice to write the project in E....)
-
- My project, "Iconian", is also around 20,000* lines of E code. I've been using
- E since getting onto the Internet in 1994, too.
-
- : I could give you a very long list of reasons why I don't like E. It's got
- : some very fundamental design flaws as a language, and although it's quite
- : easy for a beginner to get into I really can't recommend it to anyone for
- : any serious use.
-
- Design flaws? The only thing I can think of is a lack of strong
- datatyping. Other than that, it has a better design in places than C does.
- And E is close to Java in design. Exception handling, no messing with
- pointers, automatic memory deallocation, etc. If Java is the next big thing,
- than E can't be too bad.
-
- Not for serious use? What about the commercial program, "Photogenics"?
-
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- *give or take 10,000 depending on how your writing style is. ;)
-