--- Carl Youngblood <cyoungbl / legato.com> wrote:
> I understand that Ruby is more all-purpose than REBOL, but I'd been
> interested in opinions from others who have used both languages.  FYI, my
> background in Ruby is what I would call beginning/intermediate-level -- I've
> done one multi-threaded web app that parsed real-time stock quotes and
> stored them in a MySQL database.  I haven't coded anything but the simplest
> one-liners in REBOL.

I've looked at REBOL a little over the past couple of years, and my conclusion
is that REBOL's syntax is too difficult for me personally to decipher, a lot of
the time.  I took one line from a sample Web server written in REBOL and
expanded it until I could easily understand its semantics, and by the time I
was finished, I had at least a dozen lines (granted, many of them were just a
square bracket with indentation to help me understand the grouping of messages
and operations).  Still, I found that rather daunting.

I have to admit I have a lot less experience than you in Ruby, and not very
much more than you in REBOL, but that's my view, FWIW.  I suppose I should try
to temper my opinion with my recent forays into Scheme (whose syntax I would've
told you 6 months ago was too weird for me to consider worth wrapping my brain
around <g>), but I haven't re-examined REBOL since starting to gain an
understanding of Scheme....


Al


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