* Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061107 01:02]:
>
> "Tim Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> >> allows us to embed loops and all sorts, effectively adding new
> >> command structures to the language in a way that only Lisp
> >> and Tcl have really been good at up till now.
> >
> > Sorry Alan, but you are leaving out rebol. Command structures
> > in rebol are are just functions and IMHO, easier to "roll your
> > own" than lisp macros.
>
> Quite right, I forgot rebol.
>
> I played with it briefly and it is a lot of fun for network
> programming,
I'm well-acquainted with one 'shop' where hundreds of perl
scripts are running doing regex work and hundreds of rebol
scripts are running doing TCP/IP stuff.
> but ultimately I ran out of steam with it too
> often so gave up.
IMHO:
rebol is more designed for small applications and is easy to 'get off
the ground' with, but python's strict engineering and well-designed
OOP scales better, so I use it for the larger applications.
MTCW
tj
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