After takin a swig o’ Arrakan spice grog, mnhenley@msn.com (Mike Henley) belched out…:
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.
… much omitted …
What’s wrong with Rebol?
“What’s wrong” is that ‘proprietary nature.’ If I write code in Perl,
Python, or Ruby, I can be certain that I won’t get bitten because of
someone pulling the rug out from under them.
I can’t be certain in the same way of the perpetual availability of
REBOL.
Furthermore, if I am considering whether to build and contribute a
module to REBOL (where the user base is necessarily limited) or to
Perl/Python/Ruby, I’d be more inclined to do the latter. And so there
are LOTS of third party libraries for these other languages.
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Rules of the Evil Overlord #102. "I will not waste time making my
enemy’s death look like an accident – I’m not accountable to anyone
and my other enemies wouldn’t believe it.