Re the "ideal scripting language": have you looked at Python?
Rebol is great for internet related scripting, but as a general scripting
system, Python is about as good as it gets right now (in my humble opinion).
At 09:19 AM 4/3/00 -0700, you wrote:
>....about scripting languages is that they let you do a whole lot *very*
>quickly and then you're stuck. My current case in point, is this program
>I'm writing to sync files from the three different computers I use to a
>central location. (bookmark files, address books, etc.)
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>All the stuff that I expected to be hard was easy: querying a FTP site,
>uploading and downloading files, comparing file dates and times.
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>The part that I expected to be easy seems impossible: setting the time on a
>file in the local file system. I never once imagined that I wouldn't be
>able to do this.
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>It's incredibly frustrating. Is there a way to make calls to custom DLL's?
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>Thanks,
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>Brad
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>===== Original Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 4/03/00 8:06 am
> >Hi
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> >Does anyone know the SERIES package for CommonLisp
> >(http://series.sourceforge.net/) and can explain difference and common
> referring to Rebol ?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >AR
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