[REBOL] large-scale REBOL coding? Re:
Hi, >Wow, that makes my REBOL program look puny. A mere 7242 lines (including >comments). And I was feeling so proud of it. Wh! My web directory now has 7383 lines of code (without comments - I don't use them with CGI scripts) and it still isn't finished, note that I like to pack as many commands on to one line as I can, so the lines are sometimes 500 characters long. Although the script is broken up into 55 files which only get read when needed, so it's very quick and efficient. Just in case you wanted to know! All the best, -- Malcolm Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreesiteUK - http://www.freesiteuk.com The UK based searchable web directory of free internet services. FreesiteWorld.net - coming soon.
[REBOL] large-scale REBOL coding? Re:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wow, that makes my REBOL program look puny. A mere 7242 lines (including > comments). And I was feeling so proud of it. Wh! You wrote a 7000 line REBOL program? That's pretty cool.. I'd love to take a look at that, is it publically available? What does your program do? Did you find any problems with using REBOL for a task like that? How did you split the source code up? Inquiring minds want to know. :) -Jake
[REBOL] large-scale REBOL coding? Re:
> >Take Zope (www.zope.org), for > >instance, a Web application server written in Python (with a few native > >modules). I just downloaded the latest version and ran a quick line > >count on all the .py files: 83165 lines, plus another 10391 lines for > >the ZServer HTTP server! That includes comments, but still I'm very > >impressed that the language can scale up to handle a project of this > >size. > > Wow, that makes my REBOL program look puny. A mere 7242 lines (including > comments). And I was feeling so proud of it. Wh! > > - Michael Jelinek > But, Micheal, your program probably WOULD be 83,165 line in Python. --Ralph
[REBOL] large-scale REBOL coding?
On 07/17/2000 04:11 PM Jake wrote: >Take Zope (www.zope.org), for >instance, a Web application server written in Python (with a few native >modules). I just downloaded the latest version and ran a quick line >count on all the .py files: 83165 lines, plus another 10391 lines for >the ZServer HTTP server! That includes comments, but still I'm very >impressed that the language can scale up to handle a project of this >size. Wow, that makes my REBOL program look puny. A mere 7242 lines (including comments). And I was feeling so proud of it. Wh! - Michael Jelinek
[REBOL] large-scale REBOL coding?
Hi all, Here's something I've been thinking about since talking to a friend about REBOL and its prospects. He said that just about any scripting language can handle scripts of a few hundred lines, but the real challenge for REBOL will be in whether or not it can handle large-scale programs as well as, for example, Python. Take Zope (www.zope.org), for instance, a Web application server written in Python (with a few native modules). I just downloaded the latest version and ran a quick line count on all the .py files: 83165 lines, plus another 10391 lines for the ZServer HTTP server! That includes comments, but still I'm very impressed that the language can scale up to handle a project of this size. One project I'd like to work on once I'm finished with my current programming contract job would be to look through the source code to Zope and figure out how feasible it would be to do something of that size with REBOL. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that one big limitation of REBOL currently is the lack of solid module support. DO'ing subsidiary scripts doesn't seem like the right approach, especially compared to Python's powerful import facility. I know there are some third-party module managers available (which to be honest, I haven't had time to investigate), but this seems like the type of thing that needs to be built into the language. I would assume that RT is aware of this, and hopefully working on a solution, but are there any other areas where REBOL is currently lacking? I don't want REBOL to be only useful for quick hacks!! -Jake
