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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.

17 of 246 comments (clear)

  1. cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    damncool

  2. Homework by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I bought this Daft Punk album, Homework, and am disappointed. Taco said it was awesome so I (foolishly) took his word. It's nothing but bleeps and bloops and chinks chonks zips. Don't listen to Taco, people. He made me waste $14.

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

      you bought an album?

    2. Re:Homework by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah. Napster is fucking useless. Gnutella is shit. I get most of my stuff from the used sections at record stores now.

    3. Re:Homework by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "P2P file sharing" is for the unr33t.

      Real kids get full albums tarred that are ripped at 192kbps min and release 2 weeks before it gets to stores off of t3+ ftps.

      If they can kill file sharing it will be good, all the lamers will have to go back to buying multimedia and the real kids can get all the latest shit unharrassed.

      P.S. even people who like that genre of music agree daft punk has no talent and only sells records thanks to over produced videos get played constantly on mtv.

      Dude Taco lives in fricken Wisconsin or something, don't take his advice on what groups are hot.

    4. Re:Homework by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Aye, it be crud. If you still want frogs get Air's Virgin Suicides album.

      Then again, I like that Gene Loves Jezebel remix album, so ignore me.

    5. Re:Homework by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      >I bought this Daft Punk album, Homework, and am disappointed.

      Maybe you should have bought their latest album, Discovery?

      Homework is OLD. Unless you're hardcore, you ain't gonna be into it. Sorta like trying to get into heavy metal by listening to Def Leppard.

  3. Re:god damn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm extremely sick of the flag-waving soccer moms and idiot truck drivers who ooze sheeplike patriotism and don't stop to think about the root cause of the USA's problems - Israel. Our support for Israel is the reason we are in this mess. Please read this new article from Dr Pierce for more information.

  4. 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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    1q2w3e4r5t6y7u8i9o0pqawsedrftgthyjukilo;p'azsxdcfv gbhnjmk,l.;/
  5. Re:Da Fuck!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yhbt. yhl. hand.

  6. 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.

  7. Re:Troll Tuesday? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't need ANYTHING! Except this mug. And this tennis racket. And this chair. And this tie.

  8. Re:Troll Tuesday? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Put her back in the bowl.

    oh wait that was something esle.

  9. Re:Troll Tuesday? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sounds like one of the names they flash on the screen when either Wile E Coyote or the Roadrunner appear.

  10. Re:oh goody! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hit her in the shitter!

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

    Where's *your* picture? :-)

    --
    -=Maggie Leber=-
  12. Re:7KB is nice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moderators are really on crack...