Hello All:
I have seen references to Karl's C++ port,
is that still available and where can I get
it?
Thanks
:>)
At 02:25 AM 2/15/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi, pekr!
>You wrote:
>> Well, first - why me? :-) I am not familiar with low level stuff as
>language compilers, etc.
>
>Why not? I wanted to get people's opinion on the end result. :-)
>
>> So now to your vision, Andrew. Can we make it without RT support? Rebol
>doesn't offer any plug-in, modules, whatever mechanisms YET. I think we will
>have to wait for /Command release to see, what RT thinks about the direction
>you suggested. I know interpreted Matlab for e.g. allows generation of C
>code too ...
>
>It could be done now with using Karl's C++ port that talks to REBOL.
>Unfortunately, I can't untar/unzip his archive. :-(
>
>> IIRC, REBOL/Author was one of planned REBOL products. During 1.x times,
>Jrm tried to implement Rebol compiler (or Rebol compatible language?) called
>Scherman. Official words of Carl (not related to Scherman) were something
>like it would be possible to partially compile some set of expressions, or
>something like that. I don't know it is still planned or essential for RT.
>Similar discussions were held here already.
>
>I've passed by the Sherman site a while back. It looked liked development
>had stopped.
>
>> I feel one and only REBOL.exe and /View, /Draw, and others in the form of
>loadable, unloadable modules is essential, as it could prevent us from
>dealing with two (or more?) different versions of Core. My friends which are
>in web development feel that Apache module has to get database support, or
>it will fail. Some of us would like to prevent the code to be seen by
>others, from whatever reasons. Runtime Rebol? Embeddable rebol? Script
>compilation and obj generation? You and others would like to see C code
>generated.
>>
>> Where is the answer? What to do first? What to do at all? :-)
>
>> However, I would be really glad, if everyone could express his opinion
>without the fear of negative reactions ....
>
>Me, too.
>
>As for REBOL and REBOL/View, if they were separate modules, what would they
>be good for? It's a rhetorical question. More on Ally list, as it discusses
>View more deeply.
>
>Andrew Martin
>ICQ: 26227169
>http://members.xoom.com/AndrewMartin/
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