Hi Brad and Ralph,
>
>No comment on the Perl either<g>. I am committed to waiting for
>Rebol/command but, does anyone have any idea how soon that might be?
>
If push comes to shove you can always write a PERL case tool in REBOL.
Similar to what Andrew Martin and others did with HTML. I also started
implementing something like that for TCL/Tk (rather limited to my
particular application).
It's also work, but it's more fun, since you're implementing the case tool
in REBOL. You grab a comprehensive book on Perl, look up the things you
will have to do and formulate them as functions and/or objects that bind
argument values to open words in a string template and return a copy of the
bound string template (for instance ...).
You do have to think somewhat indirectly. You are no longer writing a
database application in a programming language, where the application is
the problem and the language (Perl) provides the tools to solve it.
Instead, in this approach implementing a database application in Perl is
the problem, which you are solving with REBOL. It's kind of a "real world
application" ;-)
Elan
