>     REBOL's a messaging language.  TCP/IP is pretty important to that
>     end.  It sounds like you're more interested developing stand alone
>     apps for a stand alone box.  There are plenty of platform specific
>     APIs you can use for those needs.
>
>     -jeff

Here, Here!  Exactly what I was thinking.  Java (or even C or VB) would be
much easier to develop those types of apps.  As it says on the Rebol web
page, it is an Internet Communications Language for distributed computing.
I for one would like it to stay focused on Internet Communications (email
and web/cgi) etc.

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?" - Albert Einstein
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