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 =)