From: Andy Elvey <andy.elvey@...>
Date: 2001-08-01T17:57:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18949] Re: Ruby vs. REBOL


Carl Youngblood <cyoungbl@legato.com> wrote in message
news:QuB97.47$yg6.5908@news-west.eli.net...
> "Niklas Frykholm" <r2d2@acc.umu.se> wrote in message
> news:B8x97.10511$WD1.461066@e420r-atl2.usenetserver.com...
> > > I have been looking into REBOL (http://www.rebol.com/) lately
> > >
> > * There is no operator precedence, operation proceeds strictly from left
> >   to right, so 3 + 4 * 2 and 4 * 2 + 3 give different results. This is
> >   kind of tricky.
>
> Agreed.  However, you can still use parentheses to force the order you
want.
>
> > * It is not free. There are public and commercial versions of the
> interpreter
> >   with different features.
>
> I was going to mention this but forgot.  This is what I would consider to
be
> one of the biggest downsides to REBOL.  However, most of the core
> functionality is free and _not_ time limited, as far as I can tell

Hi Carl - just thought I'd mention that there is a project underway to
create an open-source clone of Rebol .
 It is called the Oscar Project ( Oscar = Open Source Code Aka Rebol) -
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OSCAR-PROJECT