[REBOL] .net Framework

[jwold]

I am to a fan of c#'s design.  However note the blatent ripoff's of Delphi and Pascal concepts.      REBOL's strength is it's ability to be the juggernaut of porting.  Imagine if you have all these compiled scripts rolling around for various architectures.  REBOL has to remain as platform neutral as possible if it is to succeed.  Scripts that run on one machine should be able to run another etc...  If they were compiled at runtime, I could see that.  However the scripts I have been seeing are incredibly small.   A dissapointment on my behalf is that MS simply didn't release the compiler and whatever libraries they needed to include.  They released ASP+ and various other behemoth things as well.  Essentially to get the c# compiler I had to download 90MB's of .NET (preview) Borland however released it's latest rev of BCC32 for free.     If there is a lesson in all this madness take an example from Borland/Inprise, REBOL, PHP...  Portability is the key.  Note the lack of the name "Sun Micro." in here.  Java is to an extent platform dependant now.     These are going to be the new big players.  The only thing that is hindering this right now is MS's death grip on the computer industry.  I enjoy Win2K and various other products from MS.  However, their marketing strategies border on either Genghis Kahn or Orwellian.  Essentially you have alot of developers out there that are windows bred, not willing to try new things and are very comfortable with RAD environments such as VB &tc..  It is taking a while for people to realize there are better ways to do things than let's say ASP or JSP.   Note:  If you wish to flame me Windows or Linux users.  Please note I am a big fan of OpenBSD & Win2K respectively ;)  What I am saying is opinion, if you really don't like it you always have the option of *shock* deleting the message and or ignoring it.    Jarrett Snowware