Euphoria (programming Language)

Euphoria (programming Language)

Euphoria is a programming language originally created by Robert Craig of Rapid Deployment Software in Toronto. Initially developed (though not publicly released) on the Atari ST, the first commercial release was for the 16-bit Microsoft MS-DOS platform and was proprietary. In 2006 (with the release of version 3), Euphoria became open source and the openEuphoria Group continues to administer and develop the project. In December 2010, the openEuphoria Group released version 4 of openEuphoria along with a new identity and mascot for the project. OpenEuphoria is currently available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X and three flavors of *BSD.

Euphoria is a general-purpose high-level imperative/procedural interpreted language. A translator generates C source code and the GCC and Open Watcom compilers are supported. Alternatively, Euphoria programs may be bound with the interpreter to create stand-alone executables. A number of GUI libraries are supported including Win32lib and wrappers for wxWidgets, GTK+ and IUP. Euphoria has a simple built-in database and wrappers for a variety of other databases.