I would both like to call things from Rebol, and to call Rebol from things.
Also keep in mind that, for the Windows platform, most people I talk to
about Rebol ask if it can call COM stuff. Obviously this is Windows
specific stuff, but Windows has a huge amount of usres. And when we say COM
we could say CORBA too. And CORBA is multi-platform.
I that providing an extension trough CORBA would be a very nice first step
that could then have a COM variation.
This could allow to use REBOL from other development tools and to use stuff
made with other tools become usable from REBOL.
Wouldn't this improve a lot on the nice GLUE characteristics of REBOL???
(Remember that messagin is not so easy with other tools!)
Have fun,
Paulo
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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 4:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [REBOL] What about Rebol/Command? Re:
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> And what do you think about a Rebol extension language tool?
>
I think Rebol would make a fine extension language. The major problem all
extension language integrators face is how to glue to language to the
application's core datastructures. Series are a simple yet obviously
powerful
abstraction; RT has given us ample examples of how to bridge that
abstraction to
a variety of problem domains with their tight integration of series and
various
network protocols. I suspect that a thoughtful way to wrap host-app
datastructures up in series would in a natural way lead to very expressive,
very
tight extension code.
$0.02,
jb
>
> thanks /cesar
