[REBOL] Re: rot13

2003-12-15 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Julian, thank you for taking time to discuss the things. Some opinions are well informed: >First, to be fair, some things I like about rebol: > > - very obvious influence from both lisp and forth, both of which are > interesting, complementary languages. (this covers a lot of aspects >

[REBOL] Re: rot13

2003-12-15 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Julian, Thanks so much for chiming in here! JS> - no open source compiler for the language... R# is an open source effort that has been started in that regard. JS> - a lot of things seem magic... That's one of the things I like about it. :) I gravitate towards "human friendly" of langua

[REBOL] Re: rot13

2003-12-14 Thread Julian Squires
Hi Tim. On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:14:31PM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote: > > > > and especially with respect to the "Note to others..." > > > That was a remark that demeaned the author more > than anyone else. Perhaps he or she could come > forward and make a case for why one should not > use rebol

[REBOL] Re: rot13

2003-12-14 Thread Tim Johnson
> > and especially with respect to the "Note to others..." > That was a remark that demeaned the author more than anyone else. Perhaps he or she could come forward and make a case for why one should not use rebol? I make a living writing code and I've coded in over a dozen languages. Rebol's th