 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 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. ==overview== the euphoria language is a general purpose procedural language that focuses on simplicity, legibility, rapid development and performance. : simplicity :: - the language uses just four built-in data types (see below) :: - automatic garbage collection is implemented. : legibility :: - the syntax favors simple english keywords over the use of punctuation to delineate constructs. : rapid development :: - euphoria is interpreted to encourage prototyping and incremental development. : performance :: - euphoria incorporates an efficient reference-counting garbage collector that correctly handles cyclic refer
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