Hi Ed Good post - thanks..
> Before I close this overly long message, I'll posit a parting thought. Tim > Bray and other bloggers have asserted that there are 4 main kinds of apps: > > * information retrieval & consumption > * database interaction > * content creation > * games/media players hmm... Well what's missing from on that list is 'thinking tools' Rebol does good things to ones head, and especially in the context of what else is out there. I consider Rebol is a catalytic idea - a thinking experiment for programmers not a product in the contemporary neoconpostdotcom sense. Or if is a product then its true value is memetic. Part of its meme is programming for fun - and programming to design and be different and anticipate where the 'new' paradigm will be in 15 years.. But Rebol needs a home also, and I've always felt that it should be as a first language or in some happy creative academic environment. Where people are encouraged to invent the future and play with ideas deeply. It would only take a couple of CS departments to adopt it. That's part of its Logo heritage too. I think in France there is a the best chance of that happening right now. Elsewhere, I am sure the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans would love Rebol, if they knew about it , and if it would support Unicode. - Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
