Mike Henley wrote: >I first came across rebol a while ago; it seemed interesting but then >i was put off by its proprietary nature, although the core of the >language is a free download. > >Recently however, i can't help but say i was totally impressed. I >needed an open source wikiblog/wikilog, whatever you wanna call it, >basically a hybrid of a blog and a wiki. I checked out snipsnap, which >uses java, it was said on their site to be a clone of vanilla, a >wikilog written with rebol. I wanted an open source thing so i could >modify it to my needs. > >snipsnap turned out to be, even apparent on the first day of use, way >too far from being mature and reliable, and although they said it >doesn't require a server, it required a download of the sun java sdk, >which, when installed, was well over 400Mbs of space on my hard drive. >Not to mention another over 100Mbs for the JVM. > >So as i needed a mature enough solution, but liked the way snipsnap >worked, i looked around, and on freshmeat i found vanilla, with a >development status of 5; production/stable. I went to its site, where >a working demo impressed with its capabilities. The site is though >poorly documented, very poorly documented i had to use trial and error >to work out how to install it. Anyhow, what impressed me was that the >download, which was less than half a megabyte, installed vanilla, >which is the wikilog, an apache server, and the rebol interpreter, >which is the free download version. And it self-installed! It turned >out to be a very very capable wikilog, and highly extensible. I am >still amazed and impressed by it after a couple of days of use. > >Rebol itself seemed a very easy to read language. Sorta like ho >readable SQL is. I might even say more readable than python or ruby, >or at least as readable. > >I have the intention to learn it over the coming few days, at least to >customize vanilla to my needs. > >So i ask you guys, what's wrong with Rebol? i mean other than it's >proprietary nature. 'cos anyway, there are many commercial IDEs for >open source languages, and if smitten enough i might even consider a >rebol SDK. It just amazes me for how readable it is, how much it seems >to enable to do with so little code, and the size and capability of >the final solution. > >What's wrong with Rebol? > > Very Intelligent SPAM ! (at least better than the nigerians =) ## LEts code what i want to say (easier for a non english advanced coder ) ## Contributions are very appreciated. class RubyTalk << MailList Include Positiveness def initialize(thread) @thread = thread forget rules if friday end def ruby_vs(language) if language =~ /perl|pyhton/ redirect to previous discussions/links else what can we learn from that language ? end end def troll what can we learn from that troll ? end def no_good_english think this imagine your self in the ruby-talk/jp ...same for us end def nigerian_spam send to your friends end end newthread=RubyTalk.new( what's wrong with REBOL?) => what can we learn from REBOL ? # too high level language => How good is a too high level language ? => RE: what's wrong with ruby? Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.-- Lily Tomlin what's wrong with REBOL? .. funny =)