Hi David,
let's make REBOL succeed!
Elan
David Vydra wrote:
>
> Christian,
>
> Thanks for informing us about Curl. After spending an
> hour looking at it, I am sure that:
> 1. I like REBOL better in most cases
> 2. I am worried about REBOL's future
>
> Why $52M? For the marketing department, of course.
>
> We have all seen many great technologies shelved due
> to competitors better marketing.
>
> My personal complaints for REBOL are:
> 1. R/View is not marketed as a GUI component for
> large client/server systems, specifically servers
> written in Java.
>
> 2. REBOL is not being ported to Java. Curl announced
> their intention to do so.
>
> <reflecting>
> Several years ago, I joined Forte Software, which had
> "technically" the best solution for 3-tier
> client/server systems. When Sun announced their Java
> EJB spec, Forte stock plummeted from $40 to $3.
> Ironically, Sun bought the company for $20/share a few
> years later, but the original Forte TOOL language
> seems to be dying off.
>
> Forte was very proprietory -- not a single book on the
> TOOL language has been published, so REBOL is doing
> better in that department.
>
> For all of the evils of Java, one has to admit that
> there are many useful toolkits available, a few very
> nice IDEs and Java does run on more platforms than
> REBOL.
> </reflecting>
>
> I hope 2 years from now I will program in REBOL, not
> Curl.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
> --- Christian Langreiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Curl seems to be quite similar in scope and
> > direction to REBOL:
> >
> > http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/curl/wwwpaper.html
> > http://www.curl.com
> >
> > They just got $52m in funding.
> >
> > Any opinions?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Chris
> >
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