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The Euphoria Programming Language

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History | Significant Language Features | Areas of Application | Sample Programs
Related Links | Printed References | Acknowledgments

History

Euphoria is a powerful yet simple programming language, developed by Robert Craig at Rapid Deployment Software in 1993. It is very easy to use, and it has good support, which makes it an excellent language for novice programmers. Euphoria is an interpreted language, just like AWK or QBasic. Although Euphoria does not claim to be object-oriented, some disagree by stating that its scope rules and flexible data structures allow you to simulate any method of programming, including object-oriented. "Euphoria is a small, fast, cheap programming language and a true gift to young programmers.", states Paul Smith in a August 1997 article in the Monitor.

Significant Language Features

• Exceptional garbage collection algorithm - recaptures and reallocates unused memory automatically.
• User-Defined Data Types - allow the user to design data abstraction
• Efficient Execution - execution is said to be 10 to 20 times faster than Basic and about 8 times faster than Java.
• Interpretive language - The compiler translates the program into a notation that the interpreter can easily execute.
• More freedom in code layout
• Strongly typed language

Areas of Application

Euphoria has been used in a variety of commercial programs, it has been used for the development of a number of commercial computer games, and has been the inspiration behind The Euphoria Pixel Bot Project.

Sample Programs

• Hello world!

Related Links

• The Official Euphoria Programming Page
  The official Euphoria page from Rapid Deployment Software where you can obtain news and free downloads. You can also download the freeware version of Euphoria version 2.1.
• The Euphoria Web Ring
  Links dozens of Euphoria-related Web sites.
• Euphoria
  Web page with brief description of Euphoria.
• Euphoria Review in Monitor Magazine
  Article written by Paul Smith in August 1997 issue of the Monitor, the monthly magazine of the Capital PC User Group, Inc.

Printed References

1. Smith, Paul (1997). Euphoria v1.5: Small, Fast, Cheap MS-DOS Programming Language. Monitor Magazine.

Acknowledgments

The Hello world! program was written with the help of the Hello, World Page!.