Subject: RE: [TS] This is interesting too
wtanksley@bigfoot.com
Date: Mon Aug 14 2000 - 15:02:23 EDT
From: Ben Darnell [mailto:ben@thoughtstream.org]
>On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:05:26AM -0400, G. Edw. Learned wrote:
>> In the light of multi-platform development environments,
>> have any of you
>> looked at rebol? I just ran into it this weekend, while browsing a
>It's free, but source isn't available. It's available on about 30
>OS/version/architecture combinations (considerably fewer if you want to
>use the GUI library). It looks rather perlish to me - lots of
>special-purpose syntax (I know that special-purpose syntax is sort of
>the point of the language, but that idea just doesn't sit well
>with me).
>I don't see anything there that tempts me to leave python.
IMO, Rebol is a very clever language design, but as Ben says, it's not open
source, so it's that much harder to distribute.
However, it's not really true that Rebol has "lots of special-purpose
syntax". The really clever part of its design is that it has almost none;
it's like a clean, logical Tcl (I hate Tcl, but like Rebol).
>-Ben
-Billy
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