[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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 ;-)).
>
Could you give some specific examples? It may be that there are
code snippets that exist to address some of your concerns. OTOH, if
not, perhaps REBOL.org could put some brain cycles on coming up with
some...
>
> Java failed with the GUI stuff mostly and it's very tricky to
> handle all the platform things...
>
Perhaps, but the REBOL, Inc. folks are experienced at de-trickfying
some other "tricky" things, such as network protocols...
> 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.
>
My priorities differ. I'd very much like to be able to wrap some
currently-working REBOL code with a GUI interface so it can be
used by someone who is more comfortable with WIMP interfaces than
command lines. That would "solve problems" for me right now.
>
> 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.
>
My vote (were this a democracy) would be to have the implementors
mainly working on REBOL/View, but reserving some of their time to
support the documentation team, who would be heads-down on getting
full-blown REBOL/Core documentation out the door -- including lots
more explanations, rationale, and here's-what-we-had-in-mind kinds
of stuff. Quite a number of examples of the need for fuller and
deeper documentation have been discussed -- some at GREAT length --
in this mailing list since I've been involved.
-jn-
