Hi Gabriele, what you say is one of many other useful information found in this mailing-list. Why nobody writes a technical book (HTML?) about these advanced information?! If Rebol has these great features, but nobody will list and explain them, these features will be lost!
If I project a new car, with many enhancements, many features, in order to better sell my new "creature", I must publicize these features! Air bags, ABS, etc... bye! --Alessandro-- > Hi Jason, > > On Sunday, May 05, 2002, 9:30:04 PM, you wrote: > > JC> cool.. So why can't I also use a similar syntax to do > > >>> remove tail test -2 > > remove skip tail test -2 > > JC> Can you elaborate on that a little please. > > Most scripting languages are rather slow even if they can be > compiled. Java is rather slow even with the JIT compiler. Why? > Because there's a lot of implicit copying of data. > > I ask you, what happens when you write: > > $s .= "append"; > > in PHP? What happens when you do assignments in a lot of > languages? I'll tell you: a lot of data are being copied around. > Without you even realizing, and worse, without you being able to > do anything with it. > > REBOL is very different here. Data is not usually copied > implicitly; i.e. something like: > > a: b > > is always O(1) whatever datatype B is. (The only "implicit" > copying occurring in REBOL is during reallocation, when you grow a > series out of its limits. Even in this case, anyway, you are able > to avoid it, by preallocating the right amount of memory for your > series.) > > This means that in REBOL you are really able to control the > complexity of your algorithms, if you are willing to. Most other > scripting languages I know are doing too much things behind the > scenes to make this easy/feasible. > > I really think simplicity has too much advantages. :-) > > Regards, > Gabriele. > -- > Gabriele Santilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- REBOL Programmer > Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Alessandro Manotti Presidente dell'Associazione "RIUSA" Sito web: http://riusa.apritisesamo.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing-list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telefono: 347.63.43.231 -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Vorresti trasformare il tuo salotto in un cinema? Clicca qui: http://adv2.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=402&d=7-5 -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
