It is a good riddle for people to think about.
Good public speakers use a illustration or riddle to get people thinking
first. They do not say is a product name, or answer full stop at the start.
Hollywood always give out some info about a movie in the lead up to release
day. But only just small amounts to get the public talking, never the plot.
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 10:13
Subject: [REBOL] The Industry Needs REBOL But Thinks it Wants Perl Re:(5)
> If I expected my customers may reject REBOL because its popularity, I
might
> present it to them as a riddle--something like:
>
> Its a written language to computers does it speak
> more and more adopt it every week
>
> It runs on over 40 platforms, available for free
> but its name has nothing to do with coffee
>
> You can send an email in a single line
> and create things in half the time
>
> This language has no keywords of which to mention
> you can just type your intention
>
> Its syntax is the clearest yet to unfold
> just print "hello world"
>
> It is only known amongst a few
> because this language is very new
>
> OK, yes wierd. But it does force someone to think about some of the
> benifits before they have something to put down because it is not this or
> that.
>
> --Ryan
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > If REBOL goes into open source, you could tell your clients you
> > are using plain old ANSI C to develop whatever they want. They
> > need not to know HOW you developed. Pretty impressive, yes?
> >
> > As I recalled many years ago (long before C came into
> > existence), I told my "boss" that I was using old Fortran but
> > actually used RATFOR (Rational Fortran, probably the first open
> > source) which was developed by the same Bell Lab boys who
> > invented C. I have no guilty of what I did.
> >
> > Geo...
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > ...
> > >
> > > I personally think REBOL is a fine language, and enjoy using it when I
> > > have the opportunity. But since the marketing is not credible, I can't
> > > in good conscious recommend it to clients. The support infrastructure
> > > just isn't there.
> > >
> > > -Ted.
>
> --
>
>
> Ryan Cole
> Programmer Analyst
> www.iesco-dms.com
> 707-468-5400
>
> We are what we think. All that we are arises
> with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make
> the world. --Buddha
>
>
>
