I'm not going to quote anyone here, because I'm taking a
different attack than Pekr did - but it is worthwhile to take
the same subject line.
Given the context for which I generally use rebol - web programming -
it is the most productive programming language that I have ever
used. And I know wherefore I speak because I've worked in about
a dozen of them. Currently, about half of my income comes from
rebol code, about 40% comes from python and another 10% from C.
But I am self-employed, own my own business and in most cases, I
can deliver product in whatever source I choose. I am also fortunate
that my domain hoster hosts rebol.
If I were to use python as an example - rebol is more productive
*but* python has more resources.
*And* is more less propietary ----- real important concept.
The same can be said for perl
and that is why my business/programming partner is sticking with
perl rather than switching to rebol despite being very impressed
with it.
I've hammered this time and again on this list, and I will say
it again, there is *so* much talent in the rebol community that
a real *distro* could be put together that could rival anything
that python or perl have to offer. I have no doubt whatsoever
that would attract more programmers.
On another note: Let's say I have a client who says "Tim, I want
your code in C. I don't care if it will take more time than
rebol. Rebol is obscure."
Now, given that scenario, suppose I've got rebol imbedded in my
editor (which is VIM), just as python is imbedded in vim.
If that were that case, I could program rebol to automate
the writing of "C".
That would make for a remarkable plugin, and I'm sure that the vim
developers and the vim community would work with RT to make that
happen. that would be just awesome and give rebol that much more
exposure.
And BTW, I don't believe that RT would have to provide source code. Vim
doesn't care about python binary source.
Rebol has taken a proprietary path that I am not sure that I agree
with. I won't program in view, because TK has so much
more application. This isn't an opinion, it is a business decision.
And anytime that I need to do stuff with compressed files, I
will use python. Why - rip files are proprietory.
Not too long ago, I suggested on this list, that rebol might
benefit from incorporating the regex engine (which is public
domain code), such as perl does.
On of my brothers is project engineer for Motorola. He uses
rebol and perl extensively in-house. Rebol for TCP/IP stuff,
perl for regex. He tells me that if rebol would adopt regex,
that his perl programmers would be getting real used to square
brackets. That is - they would be using rebol instead.
Just my 5centsworth.
Time to put some break on the table.
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