Max, I also miss those days. It was quite a blessing to be able to take hard questions, try to figure out the answer myself, and if I really needed to I could walk into Carl's office (if his door was open) or one of the other developers and get a definitive answer.
Sometimes, the question was a pivotal point so Carl would think about it for a while (and he really put thought into all the issues) and sometimes he would call a development meeting to get others' opinions on which direction to take Rebol. I was also very impressed to see how in-depth Carl thought about something before implementing it. I never sensed that he coded "off the cuff", but only after extensive mental deliberation weighing all the pros and cons and keeping an eye on the future. Rebol is an amazing piece of work. I agree that the main ingredient missing now is communication from the top. I have a potential solution. I'll see if I can set up a meeting with Carl to discuss it. It will benefit both the Rebol community and RT itself. Stay tuned. Bohdan "Bo" Lechnowsky Lechnowsky Technical Consulting At 10:22 AM 11/6/03 -0500, you wrote: >WOW, that lifts the spirit... > >btw, I USED to say to other programmers that rebol had fantastic >support... I miss the days when you where there to answer all our >questions... it rarely took more than a day, and sometimes those where >hard questions... > >now I think this list is the main support line... maybe RT counts on it a >little too much? > >thanks! > >-MAx >--- >"You can either be part of the problem or part of the solution, but in the >end, being part of the problem is much more fun." > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bohdan or Rosemary Lechnowsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:47 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [REBOL] Re: Hitting the learning curve > > > > > > > > Max, > > > > Wanted to let you know I am looking forward to > > Steel/Liquid/Glass when it > > is available. What stops me from looking into it right now > > is that I need > > to focus on tools that are completed that I can use in my > > business. Unfortunately, I have little to no free time to > > spend on other > > projects. > > > > I use Rebol a lot and every day, but hardly ever on my own > > time. When Carl > > developed VID, I recall him saying that he hoped it would be > > inspiration > > for the user community to come up with something more robust and > > specialized. I believe VID was more of a proof-of-concept > > than THE solution. > > > > Thanks for taking the reins in this aspect. > > > > A future Steel/Liquid/Glass user, > > > > Bohdan "Bo" Lechnowsky > > Lechnowsky Technical Consulting > > > > At 11:15 AM 11/5/03 -0500, you wrote: > > >since every one is in on the discussion and you nailed it so > > good, I want > > >to emphasise that this is specifically what steel|forge will > > be about... > > >when it will exist. > > > > > > > > >ciao! > > > > > >-MAx > > >------------- > > >Steel project coordinator > > >http://www.rebol.it/~steel > > >------------- > > > > > >-- > > >To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. > > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
