> 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.
That's because you have locked yourself into one mode of thought,
Rebol is a messaging language, which has nothing to do with the
internet as such. It just so happens that the internet is one huge
example of a messaging system that Rebol works with.
( from the core guide page QS-2
That's because Rebol is a messaging language. A messaging language
communicates information between applications running on other
computers . . .
)
There are others for which Rebol would be very suited to working with,
it's just that Rebol lacks some very fundemental functions, which in
my opinion should have been in the system from day one.
Don't get me wrong, I know the Internet is the way most programmers
will be working for the next few years, but it is not the whole world.
I also know that once Rebol is able to send data to other applications
directly, better workarounds can be produced but that's some time
away.
Andy
