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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Because REBOL is so capable, it has managed to spring into a full blow platform in its own right, REBOL IOS/Express. I can't think of any language out there that has evolved something like this, a seamlessly integrated, fully network enabled vessle for exchange and execution of itself. The whole array of REBOL technology is an exponential graph, if you think about it. You begin with REBOL/Core. After some short amount of time, you are hacking out powerful, platform independent scripts with a vengeance. Then you move on to View, and in a snap, all your scripts have nifty GUIs. Then you move on to Command and View/Command and suddenly your scripts are talking to databases, exchanging secure web data, loading in and executing dll code, spawning other processes, and doing a million other serious tasks. Now you reach Express, and all your REBOL scripting capabilities hook into a robust realtime shared environment. Express is a million times more powerful because of all that leads up to it. The platform has such agility and capability because it's made out of the most malleable material known to humankind: REBOL.