I'm still "just learning" and am not even writing net-aware apps, but the reason I like it over any other language I've used (incl Perl) is that the commands are intuitive (including syntax-less) yet powerful. IMHO it's REALLY not JUST another language. Java is just another language, Perl is just another language. To use them and be good with them, you've got to memorize a whole bunch of syntax and many "simple" things just aren't done in english-thinking ways. You have to become one with the computer (language) to understand how some "simple" tasks are to be done. Rebol provides a language where these tasks are done in terms more closely resembling natural language (or thought) that any of these other languages. THAT is how programming is easier (from my point of view). - Michael Jelinek -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] What Type Of Apps Are You Writting? Re:(2) I'm new to REBOL and so probably don't really get it yet (the story of my life could probably be writting with that phrase!). Most of the applications I've seen mentioned could be done as easily in Perl, Python or tcl/tk (or even Java!). I'd expected to see applications that took advantage of Rebol's extremely small foot-print and protocol-knowledge: web servers for hand-helds, net-aware embedded apps, etc. I'm not interested in starting any kind of religious war, but I would like to know what people see as the big selling point of Rebol, the reason they picked it over the various other languages on the web. Thanks, Russell.
