Charles wrote: > I missed the original post somewhere, so I'm quoting from Greg's post.
for those who missed it, the original post follows my reply. I have written quite a few heavy programs. I do not count lines. I call each an application to differentiate it from a utility. rebol as my solution foundation Sometimes the application is actually several rebol scripts which cooperate but run at different times or only when certain events happen. For example a rebol based CGI runs when the page is fetched, another when the form completes and another later when cron must do hourly processing and still another when distribution to mirror sites is complete. I could, in several cases, have built one monolithic script which is re-called for each of these events but that is not my style. If refactoring yields some common code then I can use 'do or 'include to advantage. I add to that with 'default so that I can unit-test. I simultaneously build up from the bottom (with small unit tested utils) and down from the top for these major applications. 'include and 'default are add-ons refined with help from others here. Applications built this way that I am allowed to talk about: a router reprogrammer, several newsfeed handlers and a website 'enlivener'. The first one goes out and collects data about equipment connected to a certain model of router used for remote support. It reprograms the router if the support team needs to add equipment and make it NAT reachable. Its an embedded application which cannot make use of rebol/view. It knows how to self-update if the home site publishes revisions. The enlivener application runs for every page on a website and replaces sample values with live data much like xml promises to do. It has the advantage of not requiring a format change to xml when upper management at the bank approves a page layout alteration. It replaces perl and mod-perl for performance with a lower cost of maintenance. The web design company does not have to send me xml, they upload static pages as templates right to QA. QA sees a live page with real data. If QA approves the change, the same engine is also used in production as well. In this final phase the names of web sites in URL references change to get images from some image server (like akamai) based on rules the bank laid out months ago. Same with nav links that would normally point to the design company server or to QA servers. I did not do the whole site with rebol functioning as the server itself because it had to cooperate with other legacy apps already there. I did not have the luxury of rebol/command at the time. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > Hi all, > > does anybody know someone who created (single persons or companies) > heavy programs in Rebol? For heavy programs I intend big programs, not > small utilities/games like mines, some email readers, etc... > > Another question: why "www.rebol.com" has not a full-featured site > built using rebol interface? I can use Rebol only for some specific > operations! > > I wish to create (or to see an existing one) a site visible totally > with Rebol. I think it could demonstrate the power of this system. > > I'm not talking about IOS, but a freeware application, an > application ".r" not a ".exe" (executable) application like IOS. > > What do you about this? > > -- > Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
