From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2005-11-04T03:40:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Ruby vs REBOL

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 21:36 +0900, tony summerfelt wrote:
> somebody else mentioned the fact that opensource languages are adopted
> a lot quicker.
> 
> i realize the folks in charge of rebol want to make money, but
> crippling a programming language is not the way to do it.

It's not just an issue of proprietary languages being limited by the
vendor or not developing as quickly as open source languages; there's
also the issue of what happens if the vendor goes under or is bought out
by a competitor who discontinues their product.

You gotta wonder -- is it worth pouring months or years of work into
software in a language that can just disappear overnight?

On the other hand, even if civilization were wiped off the face of the
earth by nuclear holocaust, I'm willing to bet even money that there'd
be a post-apocalyptic shaman somewhere invoking the god Enumerable and
speaking reverently of chunky bacon.

-mental