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> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 10:42 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [REBOL] Openletter to Rebol HQ. Re:(3)
> I would really be interested in knowing
> how many people interested in Rebol
> are *truly* interested in an alternative
> to Perl, Tcl, or say Python out of the
> gate, vs. say Java / C++ / VB with a
> primary focus on Internet programming ?
Hi, referencing JBones long posting and his feeling about his decisions as
CTO I can say that I have made the same experience. There was never a tool
available which I didn't brought to the limit and it took quite some time
to fix this or get enough knowledge on my side to get around it... leading
to a tool-hopper approach with not much success. So tools are just that:
Tools! For me two things are needed:
1. A compiler language for native and fast code. That's C++
2. A scripting language to glue a lot of different things together, giving
people in the fields the possibility to alter functionality without having
to call me.
With this approach less-is-more! I really don't want to have to use a
couple of different scripting languages etc. Before Rebol this was
sometimes needed but Rebol is the best I have seen so far. Robert
