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Terminology

Demos

Demos  are are written to show REBOL off in some way. Yes, you may learn something from their code, but their goal is to just look cool and show off. All demos will have a display of some kind, even if it's just a console.

Games

Games  are games. If you can play it, it's a game.

Tools

Tools  provide some kind of useful functionality.

Idioms

Idioms  are are the little nuggets that show you the inner zen of REBOL.

Plugin

Plugin  scripts can run in a browser, provided it has scripting enabled. Right now, REBOL.org has not enabled any scripts to run as plugins. For more information on the REBOL browser plug-in, please visit the Plugin guide for developers 

One-liners

It's a one-liner  if it fits on one line, it qualifies. You'd be surpised how much some of them do.

Functions

A function  or a set of functions that can be called or included in other scripts.

Modules

A module  is set of related functions, and perhaps data, that generally would define a context/namespace to avoid collisions.

Protocols

REBOL protocols  not network protocols

Dialects

Dialects  a.k.a. Domain Specific Languages; where REBOL really shines.

UI / GUI

GUIs  (Graphical) User Interfaces

Internet

Internet  Web stuff, HTTP, CGI, TCP/IP, email, etc.

Text Processing

Text processing  Includes markup (e.g. HTML, XML) related processing.

Packages

Packages  -- Multi-file scripts that may need installing.

Patches

Patches  -- updated versions of mezzanines that ships with a standard REBOL distribution. Some of them will come from RT and others will come from users.

Broken

Broken  -- Items listed here are known to have issues under one or more REBOL releases. They are included here so that people can fix them if they feel so inclined, and they may still have something to offer in any case.