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Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:38 PM
Subject: [REBOL] How does Rebol earn it's stripes?
>When I first read on Rebol's site that the distinction between code and
data is blurred I cheered. I looked at >the language constructs and thought
that looks like some of my psuedo code. But then hmm...now what?
> I've been trying to figure out what Rebol's niche is(/are).
Well for me the niche for Rebol is anywhere that has a hard drive and an
internet connection.
It is a really time saver, virtually any web or file task that needs
automation.
>It is described as a messaging language. Between what and what?
>I can see how flexible it is. Less clear is the readability of the code
I've seen.
Readability of the code? That is a very subjective thing and depends on what
other languages you are used to. One of the beauties to me of Rebol is that
you can use white space where ever you want. (Anyone tried Clarion? If the
line doesn't start in the correct column it complains!) But I find Rebol
very easy to read and very English like. Like any code it can be complex or
simple depending on the task. Rebol just makes more complex tasks simpler.
>I would really appreciate it if people could tell me what applications of
Rebol they have made (or dreamt of) >that clearly show Rebol (with it's
announced features) as being a better choice than a general purpose
>language for those applications.
I've written an email processor/server for message archiving. The whole
thing barely takes up 20k and will work equally well when the client changes
OS platforms.
For the future, I see Rebol on pocket pcs, with numerous travelling salesman
friendly apps. I see smart documents, that a client can run from a floppy,
view a catalog and place orders. And when View is complete I see a nice
cross platform spreadsheet app.
Putting my crystal ball away now.
Cheers,
Allen K
I've got so many scripts on my harddrive, that I've had to write another
script to index them :-)
