Editing Euphoria (programming language) (section)

==History==
Developed as a personal project to invent a programming language from scratch, Euphoria was created by Robert Craig<ref name=rehomepage/> on an [[Atari ST|Atari Mega-ST]].<ref name=atari1/> Many design ideas for the language came from Craig's [[Master's degree|Master's]] [[thesis]] in [[computer science]] at the [[University of Toronto]].<ref name=renotes/> Craig's thesis was heavily influenced by the work of [[John Backus]] on [[functional programming]] (FP) languages.<ref name=renotes/>

Craig ported his original Atari implementation to the 16-bit [[DOS]] platform and Euphoria was first released, version 1.0, in July 1993<ref name=firstversion/> under a [[proprietary software|proprietary]] licence. The original Atari implementation is described by Craig as "primitive"<ref name=atari2/> and has not been publicly released. Euphoria continued to be developed and released by Craig via his company Rapid Deployment Software (RDS) and website rapideuphoria.com.<ref name=rehomepage/> In October 2006 RDS released version 3<ref name=opensource/> of Euphoria and announced that henceforth Euphoria would be freely distributed under an [[open-source software]] licence.

RDS continued to develop Euphoria, culminating with the release of version 3.1.1 in August, 2007.<ref name=renotes/><ref name=renews/> Subsequently, RDS ceased unilateral development of Euphoria and the openEuphoria Group<ref name=oehomepage/> took over ongoing development. The openEuphoria Group released version 4 in December, 2010<ref name=oenotes/> along with a new logo and mascot for the openEuphoria project.

Version 3.1.1 remains an important milestone release, being the last version of Euphoria which supports the [[DOS]] platform.<ref name=oeplatform/>

Euphoria is an [[acronym]] for ''End-User Programming with Hierarchical Objects for Robust Interpreted Applications'' although there is some suspicion that this is a [[backronym]].{{according to whom|date=August 2013}}

The Euphoria interpreter was originally written in [[C (programming language)|C]]. With the release of version 2.5<ref name=renotes/> in November 2004 the Euphoria interpreter was split into two parts: a front-end parser, and a back-end interpreter. The front-end is now written in Euphoria (and used with the Euphoria-to-C translator and the Binder). The main back-end and run time library are written in C.