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2000-05-31 Thread Bosch
brett: will tell you about a rebol experience i had today. For me it illustrated the extreme simplicity of rebol: i asked a question concerning XML parsing, received an example (thanks martin!) looked at it for a minute, and within 5 minutes i had a first version of something i wanted to do a

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2000-05-31 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I first read on Rebol's site that the distinction between code and data is blurred I cheered. I looked at the language constructs and thought that looks like some of my psuedo code. But then hmm...now what? I've been trying to figure out what Rebol's niche

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2000-05-31 Thread allenk
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:38 PM Subject: [REBOL] How does Rebol earn it's stripes? When I first read on Rebol's site that the distinction between code and data is blurred I cheered. I looked at the language

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2000-05-31 Thread mijit
Hey! How about sending me all of them you can!? I need some more examples. I specifically am looking for any database type scripts. I amtrying to write something similar to a database or SQL type thing. Thanks! fmthomas Allen K I've got so many scripts on my harddrive, that I've had to write

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2000-05-31 Thread ryanc
Messaging, that is communication, is its strong point. It really rocks there. It does good at other things as well. I have found it good for reporting from text files too. Its a good versatile language. I am using it to integrate computer systems such as ordering, inventory, time accounting

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2000-05-31 Thread dlawlor
I use it for emailing stock data to myself. I download the data in spreadsheet format, parse it and email the results. Makes things a lot easier than looking at the clutter on websites to get what you want. Doug