Hey Ed, that's an excellent summary of how Rebol differs from other mainstream languages.
Everything else in this post I have said before, but I like to restate my thoughts whenever this topic pops up, as Robert notes that it does, every few months or so. I believe the artificial limits placed on Rebol by RT is the problem and agree that the strategy is wrong. I don't want another platform and Rebol is doomed to failure if it insists on trying to compete with all the existing ones. I want Rebol as a tool to bind my existing platforms and applications together. My killer-app for Rebol is to be a next generaton ARexx. This is what I expected Rebol to be from day one and is what I think of when I hear the words 'messaging language'. I want a Rebol interpreter library which can be embedded in applications and allow the application to implement datatypes & natives. I don't see how this is possible (and be widely adopted) without Rebol being open source to some degree. As I have pointed out before, Trolltech has a successful business model where their main product is open source. In a sense, RT does not eat its own dog chow. The interface users are given to extend Rebol is the commercial External Library Access. By the way, the platform vs. tool stance RT takes is apparent when they say this interface is available to interface with 'legacy' systems. I'm sorry, but things like the C language and OpenGL are not 'legacy'. RT, however, does not extend Rebol this way. They create separate products with an embedded core (View, IOS, etc) and extend the language with datatypes and natives. I have given up hope of ever being able to use Rebol this way and was very disappointed to hear Carl talk about being satisfied with Rebol as an application like HyperCard. Bleh. So I am consigned to use Rebol for various utilities where I can - things like A J Martin's C# code generator. I hope I'm not repeating myself too often here on the list. -Karl -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
