My $0.02, based on my understanding of /Core, /Command, /View strategy... I
agree with Robert: the priority should be on /Core, with /Command a close
second. While /View sounds very interesting to me, it's relatively easy to
observe that most of the "interesting stuff" going on out there today uses HTML
and Javascript etc. as its GUI toolkit (yeah, I know, ICK!) That's not a value
judgement, it's just a fact. If our goal as a community is to make sure that
Rebol propagates as widely as possible, becomes entrenched as a defacto
standard, and succeeds where others have failed, we should recognize that Rebol
will succeed because it will be because it is an *Internet* programming
language. Focusing on /Core, /Command, and platform reach (esp. to limited
devices) does more to further the cause than /View will in the short term.
/Core and /Command solve significant problems for Web developers. /View on the
other hand, while it will be nice to have, is going to be just another way to
build standalone GUIs, which isn't where the action is anyway. ;-)
IMHO, of course, but based on having seen firsthand the miserable failures and
limited successes of Tcl, Smalltalk, and Java at solving the portable GUI
problem, and having become disenchanted with standalone apps in general...
jb
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> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [REBOL] [REBOL] Palm port? Re:(2)
>
> > Similar to Palm, we have decided to commit those
> > resources to REBOL/View, demos and projects for now and will
> > have to jump back into Psion as these projects are completed
> > or we add new resources.
> >
> > We apologize for the delay and hope the benefits of
> > REBOL/View will more than offset the demand for the Palm and Psion.
>
> Hi Rebol HQ, as sexy as Rebol/View is and sounds I would like to see your
> resources spend on the Rebol/Core side... there are still some things to do
> there to make it work for real-world-applications of some size. Having a
> stable basement and efficient Rebol/Core is much more worth than having all
> those "half-done" stuff (don't get me wrong Rebol is great but I need to
> poke at you ;-)).
>
> Java failed with the GUI stuff mostly and it's very tricky to handle all
> the platform things... anyway, I would highly like to see progress on
> Rebol/Core and highest priority on Rebol/Command. Rebol/View will be a nice
> toy in the beginning but Rebol/Core/Command is a very powerful combination
> today which can be used to solve problems... for these problems I don't
> need a GUI at all but a stable scripting-language.
>
> I hope there are others here on the list who think the same way and I would
> like to ask you to vote for this too.
>
> Robert M. Muench, Karlsruhe, Germany
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>
> When do you want to reboot today?
>
> Use the free portable GUI Library
> OpenAmulet from http://www.openip.org
