Hi Petr,
you wrote:
>more protocols (IMAP, SSL ...),
are you thinking of client side SSL or server side?
Elan
> Jeff said:
> REBOL is a first class functional language (with a good
> deal of support for proceedural style programming).
>
> I don't know what you mean by `1st class'. Is it a
> technical term or an opinion?
First class is a technical term which means that a
John said:
Recalling that my argument is
1. A functional language encourages functional programming, a
procedural language encourages imperative programming. (as per
the functional language FAQ)
2. REBOL encourages a procedural/imperative style of programming.
(as evidenced by the examples and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Petr,
>
> how are things going?
Things are going well here. We just started development of own CCD astronomy
camera, and it's fun ...
As for REBOL, waiting for /Command and Apache module, and curious about future
and REBOL asyncrhonous messages, messages based tas
Hi Petr,
how are things going?
>Maybe calling REBOL a functional language is not as uncommon, as is your
>hidden name, "a142808", hmm? ;-)
In all fairness, John did previously sing off with his full name: John
Curtis. My guess is that SELMA is stripping off his name (like it does my
name. Usua
> My point is not that REBOL cannot be used for functional programming.
> Nor is it that functional programming languages cannot have
> imperative operations. My point is that describing REBOL as
> a `functional' language is disingenuous because, although it can
> support `functional' programming
Hi John,
1. The examples and scripts submitted to REBOL reflect the preferences that
the most active REBOL programmers have acquired over years of imperative
programming.
Unlike other functional or hybrid programming languages, REBOL has rapidly
attracted a surprisingly large following of mains
Hi John,
you wrote:
>Or perhaps REBOL is closer
>to classic procedural languages such as Pascal and Basic, than
>it is to classic `functional' languages such as Erlang, Haskell.
>
With respect to Haskell:
>From "Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell", second
edition, Richard Bird
> Jeff made a list of the `functional' and `side-effecting'
> procedures in REBOL. I disagree with his assessment on a
> number of the procedures:
Actually, (hairspliting/on) my two lists were just natives
and mezzanines which side effect their operands or the
interpreter at large an
