Hello,
I'm not much of a programmer, but I've been following Rebol since it was
Lava, and I like the direction it (or RT, or Carl) is taking us.
Currently I'm enjoying Elan's book very much (great writing style,
Elan!), and even though I haven't yet found my a good project for Rebol,
I did manage to whip up a CGI-driven Instant Messenger (sorry folks,
it's dead now =).
I agree with Elan, that Rebol and RT will take us to new directions,
silly as it may sound, I had the chance to play around with a Casio
e-105 running WinCE. It holds great promise for the future, even though
it's very limited right now, these "intelligent" machines will become
very important (excuse the naive tone), and I certainly think embedded
is the future. Even though Rebol is not small enough for embedded now
(it needs an OS), remember what embedded meant ten years ago? Wrist
watches have more RAM nowadays! ;o)
So where is Rebol taking us today? Probably glue highway, for now at
least. But what about tomorrow? Peer-to-peer, wireless, embedded? Who
knows? (If you do, send me an email! ;o)
I guess what I'm trying to say is: Carl won't f*ck something up in four
years that took him 20 years to develop. Don't forget the enthousiasm
you have for Rebol, couldn't possibly compare for Carl's... =)
Good luck to all,
Rachid
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Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 23:03
Subject: [REBOL] REALLY DISCOVER THE POWER OF REBOL Re:(3)
> It is a strange beast, indeed.
>
> RT depends on developers to create applications to show that
> REBOL is a viable alternative.
>
> Meanwhile, developers of the open source persuasion see tractor
> application development as RT's responsibility, feeling REBOL itself
> could be maintained by the open source community.
>
> This argument seems to crop up in relation to all sorts of products
> nowadays. It seems "open source" as a marketing element is here to
> stay. Somehow products that are "open source" have become
> attractive to customers in the same way shampoos are attractive
> when they have not been tested on laboratory animals.
>
> Only time will tell whether or not open source software like operating
> systems and programming languages will become the standard vs.
> commercial, closed source options.
>
> I tend to think open source operating systems and programming
> languages WILL become the standard because of how we use them.
> Like electricity, gasoline, etc., they are becoming resources which
> need to be standardized. I see an inherent mistrust of closed source
> products amongst many developers because a closed source
> product can be taken away as quickly as it is given. It's kind of like
> not wanting to commit to a relationship with someone who hides
> things from you. This is how I perceive this behavior, at least.
>
> -Ryan
>
> >Things like Javascript have splintered badly, but that's
> > because they were not Open Source, and vendors implemented their own
> > closed source in different ways. All that happens is that people
like
> > Elan, Gabrial, Lemir, and Joel don't waste time ruminating about how
REBOL
> > is implemented. Rather, they can contribute working code to the
project.
> > Carl would still control what goes into the kernal. But Carl doesn't
want
> > that to happen, and so it won't. Pity, because it might free up some
of
> > his developers to create real-life reference applications, and then
maybe
> > more people would put REBOL to work.
> >
> > -Ted.
> >
>
>
>
