Greetings
I just got some encouraging REBOL news from Olivier Auverlot, author of the
French REBOL Programming book, host of http://rebolfrance.org/, Rebol/Magic!
developer and more.
I asked him about the growth of REBOL in France. The catalyst was the arrival on
newsstands in France of the much loved and respected LOGIN magazine: Issue #14 -
a special edition dedicated to REBOL.
Following is my translation of Olivier's email. I hope it got it right.
Francophones please correct me if you can. I hope to get a copy of the magazine
and very curious to learn more about REBOL uptake in French universities and
research labs.
./Jason
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"The magazine has attracted pretty growth for the newsletter (at least a 100 new
subscribers). Messages posted on LOGIN's forum (www.loginmag.com) have been read
by approx. 800 people, (compared to 600 for the special edition dedicated to
security). On other French language forums, I have met with some "aggressive"
behavior regarding Rebol :-(
Too bad ! That shows the subject of REBOL rankles, and is becoming better and
better known. Not withstanding, I have learnt that sales of my book have picked
up (69 copies in 10 days).
French [REBOL] projects are many, and often of very high quality (Jabber client,
managing medical datafiles, MySQL and PostGreSQL drivers, Magic!, SNMP protocol,
etc.). In France, the situation is cool for Rebol !!!
Do you know that Rebol is taught and used in several universities and research
labs (there's an article in LOGIN's Rebol Special Edition about that).
{-- I asked him to clarify what sort of aggressive behavior he had seen towards
Rebol--}
PHP or Java programmers try to show their language is better (with more or less
bad faith). Most of the time they don't even know the subject [Rebol]. On a
French Linux Forum, a post about Rebol was even refused because it considered to
be "spam and nothing to do with Linux" (!?!).
All this is very positive.
The important thing is people are discussing Rebol.
I am going to do my best, and as quickly as possible, for LOGIN
-Olivier
> Le magazine a attir� pas mal de nouveau sur la lettre d'information (une
> bonne cinquantaine de nouveaux abonn�s). Sur le forum de login
> (www.loginmag.com), les messages post�s ont �t� lus par environ 800
> personnes (contre 600 pour le HS pr�c�dent consacr� � la s�curit�). Sur
> diff�rents forum francophones, on m'a rapport� des comportements "agressifs"
> vis � vis de Rebol :-( Tant mieux ! Cela d�montre que le sujet d�range et
> devient de plus en plus connu. Sinon, j'ai appris que les ventes de mon
> bouquin avait red�coll�es (69 exemplaires en 10 jours).
>
> Les projets francophones sont nombreux et tr�s souvent de tr�s bonne qualit�
> (client Jabber, gestion de dossiers m�dicaux, protocoles MySQL et
> PostgresSQL, Magic!, protocole SNMP, etc.). En France, la situation est
> plut�t cool pour Rebol !!! Savez-tu que Rebol est utilis� et enseign� dans
> quelques universit�s et dans des laboratoires de recherche (il y a un
> article dans le HS Login sur le sujet).
> Des programmeurs PHP ou Java tentent de d�montrer que
> leur langage est meilleur (avec plus ou moins de mauvaise foi). La plupart
> du temps, ils ne connaissent m�me pas le sujet. Sur un forum Linux fran�ais,
> un message sur Rebol a �t� refus� car consid�r� comme �tant un "spam sans
> rapport avec Linux" (!?!).
>
> Tout cela est tr�s positif. L'important, c'est qu'on parle de Rebol.
>
> Je vais faire de mon mieux et le plus vite possible pour le Login.
>
> - Olivier
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