drawbacks of Rebol for OLPC: 1. unicode. I haven't worked with Rebol in years though I still follow the list in case there is anything that makes me want to take it back up, but I don't recall seeing that Rebol had added unicode support? Despite complaints Python actually has some pretty good libraries for Unicode.
benefits of Rebol: 1. since it is a first class language all the language constructs could essentially be rewritten for major languages in various countries areas. Probably a lot of the children that will get this product will not speak English. Cheers, Bryan Rasmussen On 3/17/07, Graham Chiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW, it is now intended that the OLPC will use OpenFirmware as the boot > loader. > This means that every OLPC produced will come with forth. > > I presume that is the reason why, Mitch Bradley, the inventor of Open > Firmware, has now started writing a series of lessons on forth on the > OLPC wiki at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lessons > > > -- > Graham Chiu > http://www.synapsedirect.com > Synapse-EMR - innovative electronic medical records system > -- > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > > -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
