I agree with Holger. I want to be successful financially as a REBOL
programmer some day when I master whats at hand now. As for some of the
comments regarding cgi why not have a command-line option for cgi that
basically unsets everything /view-like but still allows for cgi or what is
called /Core functionallity today. As for some Oscar project, like Holger
I'm curious how it will evolve but seriously think it will be a long
endeveour to bring anything close to what we have today and in fact believe
that the improvements that commercial involvement brings to the language
will far outpace anything open source even in years to come. There are some
values from a business perspective in having /View as the core. Maybe
take this approach that - simple common sense should be simple. :) I
believe someday that will be the case.
Paul Tretter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Holger Kruse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 12:24 PM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: /View as a Product
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:02:41AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > You will be able to mold it to suit your needs, you don't want /View you
can take this functionality out. You want /Command features you can add them
in. You require database / audio / video / device or whatever other
interface imaginable, then you can adapt /extend the program to cope with
this.
>
> Yes, and it will do your dishes, laundry and taxes, too, I am sure.
>
> > Besides competitiion is healthy, is REBOL in it's current incarnation
really the last word in the implementation of the language.
>
> No, of course not, which is why it is being continuously improved.
>
> > Why not OSCAR, J-REBOL ( that's SUN MICROSYSTEMS fictitious future
JAVA - REBOL hybrid ) or any other Implementation ?
>
> "fictitious" is the key word describing your whole mail.
>
> > My two cents worth,
>
> Precisely that.
>
>
> Personally, I am getting more and more annoyed by this. If you want to
write an alternative
> REBOL implementation then just go ahead and do it. Nobody from RT is
holding you back, and
> I am looking forward to seeing actual results. However promising vaporware
which is supposedly
> going to be so much better than everything else, with the sole purpose of
recruiting
> developers for an open-source project in its infancy, and away from
existing WORKING and
> AVAILABLE products, is, IMHO, a highly unethical practice, in particular
if you do it on
> a competitor's mailing list. If you do it anyway then you may at least
want to be honest
> and tell users that it will likely take several years for OSCAR to reach
the level of
> functionality and stability that REBOL/Core has right now.
>
> A certain company in Redmont, WA likes to make exactly those "our next
release will be
> so much better" kinds of claims whenever the competition announces a new
product, and
> those claims often have no or intentionally inaccurate information on
product
> availability. Just something to think about...
>
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> reflect the official position of REBOL Technologies.
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