To all REBOLians, both at HQ and those of us out here in the field:
Upon thinking about Carl's original message and this subject in general for
the past several days, I offer the following two major points as to why
/Core should be kept, both in spirit and in name.
Primus: REBOL/Core is the very foundation of the REBOL concept, i.e. small
footprint, just copy into a directory to install, code runs without
modification on 37 systems (and more soon, we hope). It is universal,
catholic in the original sense of the word, no GUI stuff to slow it down nor
otherwise restrict it from operating everywhere in everyway. And /Core most
immediately meets the call for a simple yet exceptionally powerful scripting
language with the potential of replacing Perl ("REBOL is Perl without the
complication," etc.). /Core properly evangelized will get the attention of
the many millions out there already trying to craft CGI applications. /Core
carries on the great learning tradition of a beginner's interpretive
language like GWBASIC that has started so many programmers and to which
there has not existed a true alternative for over a decade... not until
REBOL/Core. It is a real, easily accessible gateway to the Common Gateway
Interface.
Secondus: From a marketing viewpoint, the name '/Core' is much stronger than
'/View'... What is the 'core?' It is the center, heart, central part, hub,
nucleus, middle, interior, foundation, mainstay, focal point, basis, crux,
meat, substance. It is: REBOL/Core.
So we of the /Core Corps respectfully ask that /Core be retained in spirit
and name or, in the hallowed words of an old Southern mountaineer and
certainly a profitable philosophy, "You dance with them what brung you," and
it is /Core that's currently getting REBOL attention and respect as a
viabable scripting language. /Core will get /View and the others in the
door, but let's not leave it outside.
--Ralph Roberts
author: REBOL/Core for Dummies
