From: Martin DeMello <mdemello@...>
Date: 2001-08-01T05:35:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18913] Re: Ruby vs. REBOL

Niklas Frykholm <r2d2@acc.umu.se> wrote:

> * This parser can be used to extend the language and this is encouraged.
>  They envision a lot of domain-specific REBOL variants. (I'm not so sure
>  that is such a good idea.)

From when I looked at REBOL (admittedly a while ago) I got the feeling that
this was precisely the evolutionary niche the language was aiming for. It
was supposed to make it easy to write little custom 'languages' to fit your
specific domain needs.

-- 
Martin DeMello