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Carl Sassenrath Talks About REBOL

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Homework by FunkSoulBrother · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you bought an album?

  2. Great, rexactly what we need. by loraksus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Another fucking messenger. I have
    - icq
    - aim
    - msn
    - ym
    on my box right now.
    Though I see the point. There should be no reason an instant messaging system be over one meg. Lets be honest, you're sending small bits of data between two boxes across the net.

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  3. Carl Sassenrath is a hero to us Amiga users. by Mentifex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Although my Rebol page on GeoCities suddenly and inexplicably disappeared with all the other Mentifex AI files on Wed.6.JUN.2001, as a first, last and always Amiga user I was proud to include Rebol as a candidate AI language before I acquired a SourceForge AI project and pared own the list of AI languages to the fifteen being used in SourceForge AI projects.

    Carl Sassenrath was a driving force behind the development of the 1985 Amiga 1000 computer that was way ahead of its time, and which served as the development platform for the initial AI Mind in Amiga ARexx. (Nanomagazine describes how an initially Amiga-platform "PD AI" project got kicked off freshmeat.net when the AI moved to the Microsoft Windows environment.)

    If Carl Sassenrath can work on REBOL against all odds, then we lesser lights take inspiration from him to work on public-domain Artificial Minds.

  4. Re:oh goody! by MaggieL · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Maybe. Some sex is interesting, some isn't.

    Where's *your* picture? :-)

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    -=Maggie Leber=-