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This is an Informational Message to pass along news about a language (EUPHORIA) which has been around for a while but which I only recently came acrosds.
First the background.
I recently adapted a program I had developed in FoxBase 2+ and FoxPro 2 also to do some extensive genetic calculations. I had to examine up to 2^16 generations and so had to use dbf files because I could not size arrays large enough or keep as many in memory as I
needed. AS a result the programs ran very slowly. It took my up to 4-5 minutes to do an
analyhsis of a single pedigree tree for an animal.
Then I ran across the language Euphoria. I was able to rewrite all of the desired programs in Euphoria. On the same machine that FoxBase(or foxPro) took 4 minutes to complete an analysis, it is done with Euphoria in 2-3 seconds.
It is really a qutie elegant language. Highly array oriented and very easy to program in.
It does not have much in the way of I/O for programming but one can easily write the desired routines as procedures or programs.
I am now in the process of rewriting the programs that were developed in FoxBase in Euphoria. OH Yes, I should also mention. Euphoria is so fast that I did not need to developed any index structures to "find" records. Euphoria comes with its own "find"
function, which does a linear search as far as I can tell for a field in the records and does it really fast. It appears to be as fast a FoxBase's SEEK on an indexed file but I have not done any comparative tests.
The language is worth taking a look at. It is written for DOS or DOS32 (Windows). I have been doing all my work so far in DOS and have run my programs on three different machines.
A 166 MHZ portable with Win95, 180 MHZ machine running Win 4.0 and a machine with an Athjlon 800 MHZ processor running Win2000.
Aside from differences in speed, the programs run fine on allmachines.
Morton F. Kaplon
First the background.
I recently adapted a program I had developed in FoxBase 2+ and FoxPro 2 also to do some extensive genetic calculations. I had to examine up to 2^16 generations and so had to use dbf files because I could not size arrays large enough or keep as many in memory as I
needed. AS a result the programs ran very slowly. It took my up to 4-5 minutes to do an
analyhsis of a single pedigree tree for an animal.
Then I ran across the language Euphoria. I was able to rewrite all of the desired programs in Euphoria. On the same machine that FoxBase(or foxPro) took 4 minutes to complete an analysis, it is done with Euphoria in 2-3 seconds.
It is really a qutie elegant language. Highly array oriented and very easy to program in.
It does not have much in the way of I/O for programming but one can easily write the desired routines as procedures or programs.
I am now in the process of rewriting the programs that were developed in FoxBase in Euphoria. OH Yes, I should also mention. Euphoria is so fast that I did not need to developed any index structures to "find" records. Euphoria comes with its own "find"
function, which does a linear search as far as I can tell for a field in the records and does it really fast. It appears to be as fast a FoxBase's SEEK on an indexed file but I have not done any comparative tests.
The language is worth taking a look at. It is written for DOS or DOS32 (Windows). I have been doing all my work so far in DOS and have run my programs on three different machines.
A 166 MHZ portable with Win95, 180 MHZ machine running Win 4.0 and a machine with an Athjlon 800 MHZ processor running Win2000.
Aside from differences in speed, the programs run fine on allmachines.
Morton F. Kaplon
