From: JamesBritt [mailto:james@jamesbritt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 5:15 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: RE: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?
…
For me, the criteria would lean more towards “not like any other
language I’ve
used,” or, “Fairly new, so that it was designed to exploit current
technology and up-to-date CompSci thinking/theory.”
Pragmatic versus exotic; use the pragmatic approach in
day-to-day work, and
explore exotic tools by night.
James
Has anyone here done anything with Rebol? I read something about it
a while ago but haven’t heard anything recently.
– Tony K.
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-----Original Message-----
i’ve played with rebol, it a lisp derivation, certainly. the best thing
about it is its extensive type system. which is very cool. rebol knows
what a telepohone number is for example. but personaly i find the code
gets very confusing very quickly. the syntax simply isn’t clean.
also, while rebol/view seems like a very cool built in gui, it is not
all the it is cracked up to be, mainly b/c it is quite buggy.
and besides, its not really free either. so i would recommend lisp over
rebol.
~transami
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On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 15:32, akolarik@sonexis.com wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: JamesBritt [mailto:james@jamesbritt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 5:15 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: RE: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?
…
For me, the criteria would lean more towards “not like any other
language I’ve
used,” or, “Fairly new, so that it was designed to exploit current
technology and up-to-date CompSci thinking/theory.”
Pragmatic versus exotic; use the pragmatic approach in
day-to-day work, and
explore exotic tools by night.
James
Has anyone here done anything with Rebol? I read something about it
a while ago but haven’t heard anything recently.
– Tony K.
–
~transami