On 17-Dec-03, Ged Byrne wrote:
> Looking at it again, the challange was "to describe
> [the language] in terms of the problem it fixes." [1]
> This is very different from a marketing slogan. For
> example, the one-liner for lisp is
>
> "Lisp: Turing Machines are an awkward way to describe
> computation."
> This seems an awkward way to describe Lisp, but it
> probably does reflect the motivation of John McCarthy
> back in the 1960s.
> Rebol's creator has expressed the problem that Rebol
> is intended to fix quite clearly on the Rebol web
> site:
> "REBOL is not a traditional computer language like C,
> BASIC, or Java. Instead, REBOL was designed to solve
> one of the fundamental problems in computing: the
> exchange and interpretation of information between
> distributed computer systems."
I was trying to get at that with...
REBOL: XML can't parse itself.
using a similar style to what's on the site. ie...
Pascal: Algol doesn't have enough data types.
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Carl Read
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