From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2002-02-20T17:28:59+09:00
Subject: RE: REBOL vs Ruby

Stephan J. Schmidt wrote:
> what's new about REBOL ? It has been around for some years now and is in
> fact nice. Been there, bought the T-Shirt,
>
> bye
> -stephan
>
> On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 08:58, Billy wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On the subject of amazing new languages (ie Ruby): REBOL ->
> > www.rebol.com.
> > Take the time to understand the language, it seems wacky at first and
> > is in fact wacky when you compare it to traditional languages. But it
> > blows everything else away. Its even easier, faster (dev time) and
> > more logical than ruby! Don't get angry at that comment just go read
> > up on it ;-).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Billy

Last month I cleaned out my library and donated my REBOL books to a local
second-hand book store (seriously, I really did!).

REBOL is a nice, high productivity language which has a strong FORTH
heritage. Its great for small apps (especially web apps), but after using it
for a while, I concluded that it was not very good for developing larger
applications.

I'm sorry I can't be more specific than that, but I haven't touched REBOL
for well over a year.

Curt