[REBOL] Re: OT, was Re: What's Native
From: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 24-Jun-2004 15:19
Hi Petr,
On Thursday, June 24, 2004, 12:49:01 PM, you wrote:
PK> I am not so sure. Things start to slow down when parsing protocols. All
PK> those html, xhml, whatever-ml :-)
REBOL wouldn't be slower than anything else. Parsing is not the
bottleneck at all...
PK> We don't have SINGLE 100% compliant
PK> parser of higher protocols in rebol, so .... ;-)
Did anyone need it? :-)
I needed a simple xhtml parser for Temple and I did it. It's a few
lines of code. It works well enough for my needs. If you need
more, you're free to enhance it or write your own...
PK> What about
PK> certificates? Even Command can't import them - every browser/mailer can ...
I think this was just left out because it wasn't needed at the
moment. After all, SSL was mainly needed for HTTPS.
Having a more complete SSL implementation would be nice, but has
nothing to do with the language itself.
PK> Simply put - Rebol kernels slept for way too long time and with new
PK> strategy coming from RT you can bet on pekr asking for strenghtening
PK> those universal engines, I simply don't want to see RT working in
PK> mezzanine level - that can be done by community members like you,
PK> Romano, Doc, Cyphre, Ladislav, Gregg and others who produce high level
PK> quality code. RT should really open Rebol kernels by implementing things
PK> like full VM or at least area-specific VMs (like draw dialect is),
PK> finish proposed language components, think of full async modes
PK> (including console) or even threading etc.
I think the main "problem" for REBOL is that it wasn't really
meant to be a general programming language, Carl didn't probably
want to write web browsers or business applications with it.
But these are mainly implementation issues. The language itself is
general enough, much more general than most languages. So the
discussion is no more if REBOL would be good for doing these
things, but what the priority if for RT to implement the necessary
native features, if they fit the vision and so on.
The question is not if we can write something like Mozilla, the
question is, should we?
Regards,
Gabriele.
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Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer
Amiga Group Italia sez. L'Aquila --- SOON: http://www.rebol.it/
