Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 22nd Oct 2001 18:16 UTC
REBOL is a powerful software technology (ever thought that you could write a full blown GUI Instant Messenger in only 7 kb of source code?) designed from the ground up to enable a new era of distributed Internet applications. The technology provides a ubiquitous, lightweight model of distributed computing that operates across all types of computer systems. REBOL is a true distributed computing architecture. Applications and data become distributed across all devices. REBOL is completely device independent, so it does not matter what operating system or hardware is being used. Every system of the Internet becomes an independent resource that can process and communicate information. The REBOL kernel currently runs on more than 40 different operating systems -- everything from large Sun Solaris servers, to Windows and Macintosh PCs, to Linux, BeOS, down to CE handheld devices. And it is here to revolutionize the Internet, by introducing the X Internet (also called as 'XNet') through the REBOL Internet Operating System (IOS). Read more of what Carl Sassenrath, Rebol Tech's CTO and founder, has to say about the future, Rebol and the race against Microsoft's .NET Services.
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REBOL's syntax is very free-form, and provides much more flexibility than most other languages. REBOL code can be as natural language like or as cryptic as you like. <p> REBOL uses a functional style, where expressions produce values that flow cleanly as input to the next chain of expressions. By building expressions in-situ, you can write code and build programs as quickly as your REBOL fluency permits. When you get good at it, you can seriously **crank** out programs. <p> The minimal punctuation, highly polymorphic functions, built-in datatypes, GUI capabilities, parsing, network protocols, etc. are all features that are integrated in the language in a convenient and intelligent way.