> -----Original Message----- > From: Cribbs, Jamey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Re: What does REBOL fix? > > > > Gabriele Santilli wrote: > > >Hi Jason, > > > >On Monday, December 15, 2003, 6:02:50 PM, you wrote: > > > >JC> Yes but that is still also true for HTML, XSLT, Perl, > Python, PHP, Java, C, > >JC> etc.. > > > >How do you MOLD some PHP code and send it to another computer? ;-) > > > > > > > I don't know how you do it in PHP, but in Python you just "eval" it.
but you have no say WRT context?! In rebol, each WORD stores its context locally, so there is a HUGE gap in possibilities. in rebol, you can build a block with the same word in it three times, each word storing a different value. I do admit, though, that if you sent the code to another computer, the context IS stripped. also because of the fact that a block is universal there are MANY ways you can trick the code to be shorter. I am implementing advanced applications in python at work (multithreaded stuff) and just having to use many different types of series makes the whole thing tiresome. for example, not all python series types support the same function(method) set so you basically have to learn each one from scratch.... hence rebol is "learn once apply many" in that the coding mechanisms are applied everywhere very uniformally. building code, browsing through data and creating your own function generator ALL use the same constructs. THAT'S One of the main reasons I prefer rebol over the rest. newbies often have problems understanding rebol's logic in the begining, but then marvel at how little they have to learn again, once they get it. -Max > -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
