[REBOL] my most frequent complaint Re:(2)

[ingo]

Hi Brad,

Those were the words of [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
... 
 No.  You are correct, hence my complaint.  It wasn't targeted at Rebol, but 
 scripting languages in general.  I'm C/C++programmer, and I constantly have 
 hopes that a scripting language will arise that I can switch to.
...

Have you seen pliant? ( http://pliant.cams.ehess.fr/ ) 

I think there is nearly nothing you can't do with it (if you had
good docs, that is). 

It does tcp/ftp/http/smtp/
scripts are compiled when started
can use dlls / be used as dll (there seem to be still some rough edges) 
highly customizable (even the whole syntax)

on the downside:
only Linux / Windows
10 MB on disc
slow on startup
missing docs
default syntax is awful 

but if someone implemented a rebol syntax translator for pliant ;-)


regards,

Ingo

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[REBOL] my most frequent complaint Re:(2)

[tjohnson]

Thought I would throw a little different take on
this thread:
I'm a modestly accomplished C/C++ programmer. I use
C++ extensions carefully and conservatively. I love
C because of it's great extendability. I've done a lot
of CGI programming in this medium
and will most likely continue with it as my main programming
language for the foreseeable future, especially for
large databases.

I'm using rebol because it is a C program written by  
far better programmers than I am. (Carl S and company).
I know it will be a valuable addition to my tool kit.

And I am also looking at Python. Rebol has got a lot
to learn from Python, but I think they WILL learn
from python and be better than either python or perl.

just my point of view.
tim 
At 01:05 PM 4/3/00 +0100, you wrote:
Re the "ideal scripting language": have you looked at Python?
Rebol is great for internet related scripting, but as a general scripting 
system, Python is about as good as it gets right now (in my humble opinion).

At 09:19 AM 4/3/00 -0700, you wrote:

about scripting languages is that they let you do a whole lot *very*
quickly and then you're stuck.  My current case in point, is this program
I'm writing to sync files from the three different computers I use to a
central location.  (bookmark files, address books, etc.)

All the stuff that I expected to be hard was easy: querying a FTP site,
uploading and downloading files, comparing file dates and times.

The part that I expected to be easy seems impossible: setting the time on a
file in the local file system.  I never once imagined that I wouldn't be
able to do this.

It's incredibly frustrating.  Is there a way to make calls to custom DLL's?

Thanks,

Brad






= Original Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 4/03/00 8:06 am
 Hi
 
 Does anyone know the SERIES package for CommonLisp
 (http://series.sourceforge.net/) and can explain difference and common 
 referring to Rebol ?
 
 Thanks
 
 AR
 
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