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> 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.
If it's a choice between /Core and /View, then /View wins. But you bring up
good points. If /View supplants /Core, changing the name to /Core may be
worth RT's time to consider. For the reasons you point out it is in some
sense is more "attention getting."
>
> 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
>
>
--Alan
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