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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Hi,
REBOL is great, and I love it, but...
- As some others said in this forum, (all versions of) REBOL should be free.
Any other interpreter that counts (Perl, TCL, Python, ...) in the internet
world is free, and offers the features of REBOL/Command natively.
- REBOL should be open-source, because RT is too small a company to face
all the expected developments, to cope with the huge number of existing
(or coming) platforms, and to resist the attacks of competitors (see what
I mean) . Using the manpower of internet would be a tremendeous advantage.
- Finally, the documentation is awfully scarce, sparse and incomplete.
One cannot expect REBOL becoming the language of choice of the internet
with so few clues of how to develop. Someone like Danny Goodman should
write "the definitive Rebol guide" ...