From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-08-22T14:50:56+09:00
Subject: RE: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?

i've played with rebol, it a lisp derivation, certainly. the best thing
about it is its extensive type system. which is very cool. rebol knows
what a telepohone number is for example. but personaly i find the code
gets very confusing very quickly. the syntax simply isn't clean.

also, while rebol/view seems like a very cool built in gui, it is not
all the it is cracked up to be, mainly b/c it is quite buggy.

and besides, its not really free either. so i would recommend lisp over
rebol.

~transami


On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 15:32, akolarik@sonexis.com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: JamesBritt [mailto:james@jamesbritt.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 5:15 PM
> > To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> > Subject: RE: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?
> > 
> ...
> 
> > For me, the criteria would lean more towards "not like any other 
> > language I've
> > used," or, "Fairly new, so that it was designed to exploit current
> > technology and up-to-date CompSci thinking/theory."
> > 
> > Pragmatic versus exotic; use the pragmatic approach in 
> > day-to-day work, and
> > explore exotic tools by night.
> > 
> > James
> > 
> 
> Has anyone here done anything with Rebol?  I read something about it 
> a while ago but haven't heard anything recently.
>  -- Tony K.
-- 
~transami