Absolutely correct. My comments about smart marketing are meant for Turbo not Borland. I agree Borland did a steller job of turning everything they touched into c---. It's good to hear from a fellow North Carolinian. I'm over here on the coast (with web feet) in Kinston NC. I would really look forward to reading a good REBOL book and I'm sure the people at REBOL would be glad for the exposure. Good luck; Paul >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [REBOL] DONT MAKE IT COMMERCIAL!!!! Re:(12) >Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 9:42:30 -0500 Liberally Snipped... > I'm not sure the >marketing of Borland's Turbo Pascal is the greatest one<g>. Their marketing >was horrible, and they ran a number of good products into the cyberdust. >For >several years in the 1980s I essentially made my living writing books about >Borland products. They had some GREAT ones, like Turbo Pascal, Turbo Basic, >Turbo Prolog, Reflex, and Sprint, their most excellent word processing >program based on EMACS. I wrote books on all those except T. Pascal. >Fantastic programs for their time, especially Sprint (which I still >actually >use for a lot of tasks, even though it has not been upgraded since 1988). >Great programs fall by the wayside rather quickly, however, if they are not >marketed correctly.I will >buy Rebol whatever the price for its obvious advantages. > >I will probably even write a book about it. I will certainly continue to >write programs IN it. > >------------------------------ >Ralph Roberts, CEO >Alexander Books / Creativity, Inc. >65 Macedonia Road >Alexander, NC 28701 >1-800-472-0438 voice & fax tollfree U.S. & Canada >1-828-255-8719 voice & fax overseas > >See Ralph's latest bestsellers at: > >http://abooks.com/genealogy >http://autograph-book.com > >And my company's online auctions: > >http://booksave.com Wholesale to the Public Book Auction >http://blue-gray.com Civil War Auction >http://tennesseestars.com All TENNESSEE THINGS Auction >http://bookauction.net Buy Books Net Instead of Retail! >http://a-aa.com/gem GEM & METALWORKERS AUCTION >http://a-aa.com/nc DOWN HOME IN NORTH CAROLINA AUCTION > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
