Carl Sassenrath Talks About REBOL

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.

Comments

oh, no

[krokodil]

oh no! not another Perl!

Seriously, people should be more careful advertizing such toy scripting languages. Some managers take their words for real and then force us, developers write serious systems using them. What about concurrency/synchronization? memory management? OO constructs? how efficient are byte manipulations? Does tail recusion eats up stack? It is nice to have 'ftp' as language construct but that does not make it 'Internet' developement language.

Re:oh, no

[kin_korn_karn]

Do not equate Perl with toy scripting languages, lest the editors and myself bring forth the pain upon your ass with the quickness and loud report.

Python, however, is fair game :) Not to mention Ruby, which is the wet dream of a thousand Rumbaugh groupies.

[COME ON!! HIT ME WITH THE -1 TROLL!!!]

Re:Who cares.

[FFFish]

"Why would any Slashdotter care about a proprietary language and its proprietary compiler that is far inferior to Perl?"

Hey, you misspelt "Python."