>I think it would be truly wonderful to have a book which does a complete
>breakdown of each of the 50 languages that Carl studied during his
>(legendary?) 20 year journey to REBOL. The strengths and weaknesses of
each
>would be presented as well as the reasons for including or excluding each
Karl Robillard wrote:
> On Thursday 26 April 2001 10:54, you wrote:
> > >The Icon book is one of the few language books
> > >that rests on my desk, rather than the bookshelf.
> > >
> > >A number of Icon's features will be added to REBOL as dialects... some
> > > day. Very nice pattern handling.
On Thursday 26 April 2001 10:54, you wrote:
> >The Icon book is one of the few language books
> >that rests on my desk, rather than the bookshelf.
> >
> >A number of Icon's features will be added to REBOL as dialects... some
> > day. Very nice pattern handling.
> >
> >-Carl
>
> Hi,
>
>One of m
I couldn't agree more
Exceedingly talented & highly skilled each and
every one of them.
Larry Wall could join them too to explain the necessity
why BUTT-UGLY Perl Unix Legacy syntax and interface
might be the be all & end all of desirable language
features.
Nice thought!
Marj Dickson 8
ce pattern handling.
-Carl
> -Original Message-
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> Brian Tiffin
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 8:28 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [REBOL] Re: Introduction
>
>
> Hello Tom,
>
> Welco
Hello Tom,
Welcome to REBOL land...Life here rocks...and it gets better every day.
Anyway, you also want to check out
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/
Icon is authored by Ralph Griswold, the inventor of SNOBOL. It has features
I've not found in other lingos.
Goal-directed evaluation, gene
You'll have fun with REBOL then.
REBOL is like a lake. On the surface, it is simple for beginners.
You can write a lot of "one liners" that do useful things. But,
there is great depth to the language, as it is the result of 20
years and over 50 languages. Programs can be very sophisticated.
L
haliluyah.(i know..spelling)finally...another mv database and basic
pgmr in here.
welcome to the rebol group...i'm just learning rebol and read alot of these
posts
i'm hoping to eventually use rebol at work to make the mv work more
effectively with the rest of the pc/unix worl
Welcome aboard Tom! --Ryan
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>
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