World: r4wp

Jerry, can you do Kindle or ePub format?  That will make it a lot 
more accessibe to people who read these days

Everyone has a phone with them these days

Jerry, I'm curious to what tools you used to write the book? LaTeX? 
Word? Makedoc?

Henrik, It's PowerPoint. I make a slide with 320 pages. I asked myself 
not to use bullet-point to make it not a traditional slide.

I also ask myself to make it readable slide.

wow, interesting

Henrik, you can see this slide, than you will know my PowerPoint 
Style. I made this Slide 3 years ago for InfoQ QCon www.slideshare.net/d0nn9n/caixueyong-cep

Thanks

Looks like the Head First series: http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfprog/

That little guy on the top right, that's you Jerry? ;-)

Beautiful presentation Jerry.

Is Scot Sutherland an investor?

Seems he is stuck in the past

Graham, he's an educator. He used to work for Rebol Inc back in the 
day. I met him way back when I worked for Commodore.

OK.

he is a really good guy btw, I had a few discussions with him a few 
years back.

Carl wants our opinions on how to move forwards ..

He was invited to this world a few months ago, and I made a booboo 
in overlooking his requests in the old REBOL3 world. I've invited 
him again.

I wouldn't worry about comments being made on Carl's last blog. He's 
not going to read past the first few. I'd be really surprised if 
he's bother ot scroll down the page.

he'd bother to !!!!

He asked people to keep it short and to the point ...

At least the spammers can follow instructions, lol

Yes ! I don't know if it usefull or not, but I used the http://www.rebol.com/cgi-bin/blog.r?cmt-week=1
page to mark Abuse post (spam). If we are enough to do so, maybe 
it will be removed !

Have bought a few things on the Apple appstore .. and wonder if Carl 
would find it worthwhile to write articles for sale .. 99c etc ?

I bought computer magazines for more money and less interesting subjects, 
but webwise I prefer free content.

Marked 37 comments as spam, doubt if it helps. Regarding the minor 
number of comments this is simple neglect.

It looks like area-tc was Shadwolf's, and he doesn't have an account 
on this world.

Ok, but it's free and github has syntax color for Rebol

How do you enable that? The R3 ODBC project could use that.

I guess it should be automatic since Andreas implemented it

Well, the R3 source in the r3-odbc project is highlighting with the 
wrong language. I'd love to fix that.

If I had to guess, probably R.

I think you need to use the r3 extension.

OK, I'll tell ChristianE :)

the extension must be ".r", so github recognize rebol file

In the r3-odbc project Github is not recognizing odbc.r as being 
a REBOL file. It is recognizing it as a language that uses ' for 
strings, probably the R language since Github already had R support 
and R uses the .r extension.

Who uses R anyway?

I can see r3-odbc colorized as REBOL here: https://github.com/gurzgri/r3-odbc/blob/master/src/boot/odbc.r3

And my files are rocognized as REBOL as well with .r extension.

GitHub is using Pygments to do colorization.. the source for REBOL 
is here: https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main/src/1ac0be8fd826/pygments/lexers/other.py#cl-1270

I've noticed there are still some minor bugs, like file name containing 
()

Probably "statistically speaking" :) much more people than Rebol. 
I use it too for statistics based projects.

Surprisingly, R is ranked 12th among languages:

http://lang-index.sourceforge.net

What is the difference between R and Rebol?

Max, see: http://www.r-project.org/about.html

R is language for statisticians by statisticians (for good and bad)

It's a little vierd as a language, but is very good for particular 
task due to special datatypes and very powerfull libraries.

Doc - your birth certificate is so cool :-)

make it a blog post :-) Fun factor is important too, so that things 
look more relaxed :-)

Congratulations to the happy Father. You know having a newborn means 
less sleep though, don't you? ;-)