Linus, please don't make Larry look like a fool. His comment is from years ago and inaccurate. It's like quoting Bill the month you put out your first Linux. Times change.
REBOL's cool here's why: It's not about programming, stupid. It's about communications. If you didn't get that, then you missed the point. That's the problem being solved, and it seems like a cool way about it. (Judging from your comments, you did not even look at it. 500K, no libs, lots-o-datatypes, fine encryption. Sure, still V1 but damn slick.)
What ever happened to innovation anyway? Us slashheads farts get stuck in the 70's with our long hair and TTYs (that always hurt). It's been stagnation since the www came out and perl ascended to the throne.
"Step aside old men; time to let the kids take over."
Yep. It took perl 10 years and at birth it was an ugly child, but these children have a way of growing up. Look at your own beast as an example. Who would have thought?
In the eyes of the beholder. Pretty slick... really quite inventive. At least they're trying to do something new and useful. Bet new perl uses a lot of these ideas, but not sure it can equal it. REBOL appears to have been designed.
A lot of next generation ideas in it and *small* binary, tiny apps, many many builtin datatypes, compression, encryption, interesting graphical hierarchy. I don't need tons of imports or includes.... and no libraries to lose on the download.
I like open source because it gives me the feeling of control. I can modify the source to do what I want, when I want, hacking it up however it suits my need. REBOL, on the other hand goes the opposite direction. REBOL's aim is to allow a program that runs on one platform to run on any other platform, without modifications. It's a sort of unification principle that requires a high level of cross-platform consistency because it's a distributed computing technology, not just a programming language. That consistency comes at the price of openess. That's what REBOL is going after. A worthy goal.
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Hmmm. Let's see now. REBOL first released in 1997. Hmmmm. This is 2001. Hmmmm. Looks like you're wrong again.
Linus, please don't make Larry look like a fool. His comment is from years ago and inaccurate. It's like quoting Bill the month you put out your first Linux. Times change.
REBOL's cool here's why: It's not about programming, stupid. It's about communications. If you didn't get that, then you missed the point. That's the problem being solved, and it seems like a cool way about it. (Judging from your comments, you did not even look at it. 500K, no libs, lots-o-datatypes, fine encryption. Sure, still V1 but damn slick.)
What ever happened to innovation anyway? Us slashheads farts get stuck in the 70's with our long hair and TTYs (that always hurt). It's been stagnation since the www came out and perl ascended to the throne.
"Step aside old men; time to let the kids take over."
Yep. It took perl 10 years and at birth it was an ugly child, but these children have a way of growing up. Look at your own beast as an example. Who would have thought?
In the eyes of the beholder. Pretty slick... really quite inventive. At least they're trying to do something new and useful. Bet new perl uses a lot of these ideas, but not sure it can equal it. REBOL appears to have been designed.
A lot of next generation ideas in it and *small* binary, tiny apps, many many builtin datatypes, compression, encryption, interesting graphical hierarchy. I don't need tons of imports or includes.... and no libraries to lose on the download.
I like open source because it gives me the feeling of control. I can modify the source to do what I want, when I want, hacking it up however it suits my need. REBOL, on the other hand goes the opposite direction. REBOL's aim is to allow a program that runs on one platform to run on any other platform, without modifications. It's a sort of unification principle that requires a high level of cross-platform consistency because it's a distributed computing technology, not just a programming language. That consistency comes at the price of openess. That's what REBOL is going after. A worthy goal.