Prompted by my last comment, I just wanted to add something... I agree that REBOL tutorials are very important to "visitors" who are checking out the language for the first time.
The way I view it is: if the userbase is not constantly growing then there is something wrong with the approach or wrong with the product (language). This is sometimes called "stickyness". People come visit the site, check out a few pages, but then... do they stick? Do they download it? Do they give it a fair chance? I think it is very important. But, I also think that we have a long way to go to improve our intro examples and tutorials. That was one of the main reasons I created the cookbook a few years ago. But, actually the cookbook is not enough. I know a lot of people who use REBOL and love it. But, I also know too many people who have tried it and not "stuck". I wish I knew more about why... and also what we could do to improve the stick factor. So, what do you think is the #1 thing we can do to get greater stickyness? I estimate we get more than 15,000 visitors checking out "newbie" pages each month. How can we get more of them learning and using REBOL? -Carl Sassenrath REBOL Technologies -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
