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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Cunliffe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:36 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [REBOL] Re: starting to be really late!?
>
>
>
> > -If RT makes shell command access free (officialy, not just
> the browser
> hack)
> > -If RT gives us the binary native!-capable module linker
>
> Yes
>
> > Then much discussion about rebol's missing capabilities is
> moot as then
> rebol can become a GPL just like python (actually much
> better) with all of
> rebols superior's methodology.
> >
> > want rebol to be the glue in your IT infrastructure, then
> shell acess does
> that.
>
> Yes
>
> > These two features alone make REBOL several times more usefull as a
> technology and industry-wide acceptable.
>
> Yes
>
> > IMHO they would let REBOL, as a platform, soar on its own with less
> pressure on RT to do everything.
>
> Yes
>
> > Direction of rebol comes by every few weeks and we've all stated our
> opinions, but I think that rebol's core weekness as a coding
> platform is its
> closed-in nature. The moment you want to do something that demands
> high-speed, guaranteed rates or actual complete and unbridled
> integration to
> external processes, then rebol USUALLY comes short.
>
> Yes
>
> > yess that is not rebol's primary vision (is it meant as a messaging
> language), but when every else does the above and you can't
> then it becomes
> a cause for concern for any pipeline/infrastructure IT manager.
>
> Yes
>
> > I also wonder why RT never packaged rebol AS a .dll or .so
> you can use IT
> INSIDE binary apps... so that you use rebol's integrated messaging
> capabilities within an application.
>
> Yes
>
> > this could yet broaden rebol's approach as a
> macro/scripting language
> (like a much better VB or arexx script engine).
>
> Yes
>
> - Jason
>
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