Dick: > I have seen mainframe computers dragged down using Edit and regular > expressions. > I have seen APL proliferate throughout a corporation and become a hero so to > speak. > > You don't want the operations group finally determining that it is the > several USERS who are coding Rebol things that are wrecking overall performance
Wise words. Part of the problem maybe is that Rebol had been billed as being for "programming in the small" -- so we have no guidelines for what big tasks it is suitable for. We're finding out as we go along. Of course, "programming in the small" doesn't mean "data processing with not much data". All the sort algorithms we've concocted are tiny, but they are asked to cope with 0.6meg of data. That's not small by most people's standards, but it's not especially large either. It's tiny by comparison with, say, the average server access log -- which is a file I suspect a lot of us have written some Rebol to play with. I continue to be impressed at the range of tasks Rebol can handle. But there will be limits, and threads like the ones on sort will help us find them. Sunanda. -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
