[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> Now all we need is office and desktop app's in REBOL. Anybody 
>>working on this sort
>> of thing?

Nice idea Ryan and I would have to agree. However with a hundred 
and one different people all coding their own you get the following 
problems:

1)      Lack of standardisation. You need freedom of expression but 
        against a standardised backbone.

2)      Duplication - which is a major waste of time and effort.

3)      Unnecessary competition instead of co-operation as a result
        of 2), leading to unnecessary division and we are too small 
        to be divided.

The Amiga scene was beset by these problems. Good ideas woud crop 
up in one app, different good ideas in another and you always 
wished you had a standard set of apps that just incorporated all 
these disparate good ideas. 

Also, if you are an Amiga user you will be familiar with the Amiga 
'suite' of browsers, all from different people, all implementing 
different subsets of what should be a complete browser. Either 
that, or they are busy re-implementing each others features. 

I hope 'Carl and the Gang' will be able to *co-ordinate* the 
standard Rebol apps to avoid these issues.

Lance.


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