Carl Sassenrath Talks About REBOL

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 28, 2001 @09:26AM from the bol-and-rebol-on-fence dept.

Rebelos writes: "REBOL is a powerful software technology (ever thought that you could write a full blown GUI Instant Messenger in only 7 KB of source code?) optimized specifically for Internet usage. Rebol Tech, the company behind REBOL, consists of only 10 people and they claim they can compete and go against .NET and Microsoft's dubious plans. Their platform has been ported to 44 operating systems so far! Take a look as to what Carl Sassenrath, ex-AmigaOS/Commodore engineer and founder of Rebol, says at OSNews about the Rebol platform, its deployment, other programming languagees, Microsoft etc." The buzzwords are pretty thick in here, and the ideas are interesting, if a little vague. If the interview makes you curious, check out the previous stories touching on Rebol as well.

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Re:And I thought Lisp was ugly! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-28 10:16 · Score: 1, Funny

[ ] make more sense as I don't have to hit shift.

There, I said it. I am actually that lazy.
(CEO) talks about (a new product) by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-28 10:18 · Score: 1, Funny

(our product) is a powerful new software technology by (our company) that is proprietary, commercial, and not Open Source, but will compete with Microsoft.

We only have 10 employees, and no advertising budget, so with the collapse of the dot-com hype machine I need a new way to generate press to show to venture capital companies.
A meta-circular view of a bovine backside by mickwd · 2001-10-28 10:43 · Score: 5, Funny

REBOL might be fantastic for all I know. But when I hear some-one say that something "was designed from a meta-circular view of language semantics" that sounds like the perfect description of bullshit to me.