OK. I thought I could resist this discussion. But, it's beginning to make total nonsense to me. So far, the latest has been said: > > > > > Surely you would use REBOL/Command to help earn a living right? > > Sorry, someones already said that about a score of other languages, and i am > still not employed. > > > It is worth it to invest in yourself and REBOL Tech by buying REBOL/Core, > and > > then charge your customers! > > And if they want it free, well then they can have as much functionality as > you > > can give them > > from REBOL/core (which is plenty, and will always be free.) > > It's not the price that is the problem with me having income. > Here are some job sites: www.dice.com and www.upseek.com On Dice I got 35,601 hits for Java, 14,696 hits for Perl, 264 hits for Python, 13 for Omnimark, and none for REBOL. The Dice web site is pretty important. In fact, Larry Wall, the creator of Perl checks this site to see how Perl is doing in the market place. When people compare Perl to Python, Larry says because of these figures he has nothing to worry about. (See Wall's "3rd State of the Perl Onion" for more details at http://www.perl.com/pub/1999/08/onion/talk1.html.) By being lucratively employed you can help turn this zero for REBOL jobs into a significant number and further promote the REBOL cause even though you may not be programming in REBOL. BTW, I included Omnimark because it's my favorite programming language in all the world. It gained it's independence in May of this year, that is, it's free, but it's not open source. It's produced by a commercial company (www.omnimark.com). They offer a command line edition that is free to everyone with ODBC support on two platforms--Windows and *NIX. They offer an IDE that is free for home and school use but has a fee for commercial use. They sell training and services. It's regular expressions capabilities outshine Perl's any day. And, lastly, it's an English-like network programming language. Perhaps, REBOL might adopt such a model. I hope this helps everyone wherever you live and whoever you are, Cheryl
