From: tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>
Date: 2005-11-04T21:51:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Ruby vs REBOL

MenTaLguY wrote on 11/3/2005 1:40 PM:

> 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.

that's a good point. although in some cases if the company is general
enough (yahoo, google, etc.) they're likely to release it for free.

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

and that counts for ANY software (raise your hand if you miss pctools
v6.0, the only real competitor to norton utilities.) not just
programming languages.


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