From: Brad Mr Date: 2009-08-23T05:50:37+09:00 Subject: Re: Why, oh why, _why? Karl von Laudermann wrote: > _why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets! > http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/08/20/resig-why On thing i do know is that he was working on Shoes 2, and on his Shoe web site he had references to two other languages that he though was neat (Scala or Clojure I think), but the other one he mentioned a lot and deserved a look at was REBOL. http://www.rebol.com/index-lang.html First built by one of the creators of Amiga OS. The goal is to be the premier Internet language, to remain small (well under a meg for the whole thing), and super easy to use (but breaks many standard programming conventions that a lot did not like. Well REBOL 3.0 has been in the works for over a year and will most likely be the last big huge effort to get this programming language to "Grow Up" and get out there before its time passes it bye. http://www.rebol.com/rebol3/motivation.html He may have just cut all Ruby ties to work on this language and help the 5 man team. In his Poignant Guide he points out that he had actually looked at Ruby before, but put it down thinking "Poor little language does not stand a chance." Well Ruby is here to stay, but perhaps this interesting internet language (REBOL) being rebuilt from the ground up has called _why to its cause. Check it out and see if that may be where he vanished to. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.