On 30-Sep-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 2:00 AM
> Subject: [REBOL] Re: REBOL, AMIGA/TAO & MICRO$OFT DOT-NET (Long!)

>> On 30-Sep-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>>> This one is for all you AMIGANS out there! Petr?

>>> Whilst perusing the Amiga website yesterday & reading about "The
>>> Amiverse" Amiga Digital Environment & it's various layers &
>>> foundation technologies, I came across the following
>>> sentence......

>>> "In addition, Amiga is working on a revolutionary common
>>> language that unites command line, scripting, control and
>>> serious application development. "

>>> My immediate thoughts were this smells like REBOL.

>> I assume this is what's going under the code-name "Sheep"? Anyway,
>> while the above may remind you of REBOL, to most Amiga users its
>> sounds like an extended ARexx.  ARexx is a language to allow
>> applications to communicate and control each other and has been
>> part of the Amiga OS since Workbench 2.  (circa 1990?)

> You are both wrong here. Sheep is the name of new scripting language
> for Amiverse, and it's being done by Vouter, author of famous
> AmigaE. There is no relation to REBOL. REBOL is multiplatform, but
> Sheep will be more like arrex, as system integration matters ...

So, doesn't...

"In addition, Amiga is working on a revolutionary common language that
unites command line, scripting, control and serious application
development."

refer to Sheep?

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