> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > --Ralph Roberts
> > author: REBOL/Core for Dummies
>
> yeah right, what is a book about language without language :-)
>
> sorry, I can't stop my self
> karol
>
No problem, Karol<g>. I've already been quite well paid for the book and
I'll not lose in any case. I believe the book will sell just as well as a
general REBOL reference whether /Core is still there or not (my working
title was simply REBOL FOR DUMMIES, it was later changed, but I wrote the
book as an overall instead of specific to /Core guide).
My books over the years have already made me very comfortable financially,
so I'll keep putting bread and new computers on the table, come what might.
I'm more concerned with seeing REBOL, the language, succeed. It is
something--the concept of Carl and others--that I passionately believe in.
In over 30 years, of using and writing about computers I've not seen
anything else with its sheer potential. REBOL is an ideal whose time has
come. As Charles Fort wrote about railroading, when it's time for
railroading, someone will invent trains. As to something that can REALLY run
on the tracks of the Internet, that someone was Carl Sassenrath. Remember,
we had rails for centuries before we had trains powered by other than humans
and donkeys. Luckily Carl did not make us wait that long.
It's just my opinion, and that of many others so it seems, that /Core oughta
stay around. This does not mean that we do not want /View or /Command or any
of the others (we do, we do!)... It just means that /Core is the perfect
entry level point for REBOL and we hope that ever-so-easy-to-open portal
remains in place.
--Ralph
