yes i did mention it to him,
he even mentioned it in his daily writings at www.scripting.com
his outliner XML idea is rather powerfull :-)
although i have found it not easy (at first) to parse and manipulate
it with rebol
HJ
i have an example of a rebol processing script at a temp server i use:
http://131.211.29.218/cgi-bin/outlines.cgi
That's pretty cool!
Would it be possible for me to get a copy of your REBOL script?
Curt
I loved reading the two post from Jake and Garold. They express things I've
been musing over for years.
My own, coupla bits:
With any description there is an irreducible amount of information that has
to be encoded. Whether this has been done as an interface or as a monolithic
program or
"Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old
ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since
MS-DOS."
That hilarious! But mostly true!
A name to my discontent, "distressing".
I knew there was a reason I've been playing (=fun) with Rebol instead of
this particular example is an implementation of dave winers
outliners idea,
Did you tell Dave about this thing? I'm sure he'd be really interested to
see it :)
IMO there are a variety of issues involved in the "component revolution"
that are related to the entire issue of "code reuse" as promised by all of
the "object oriented" technologies.
Component interfaces and communication:
The various component communication mechanisms are in competition -
