[REBOL] Re: COLLECTing results
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 24-Jul-2003 8:35
Just to chime in (good thread BTW)...
RMM> Hi, just to throw in my 0.02, did you had a look at the C++ STL library?
RMM> Especially the concepts of iterators, algorithms, functonids, predicates
RMM> etc. seem to be very similar to what you are doing here. IIRC I brought
RMM> up the idea to use such "generic concepts" with Rebol long long ago. IMO
RMM> this would lead to a very cute generic Rebol library like the STL is for
RMM> C++. Robert
Smalltalk has similar concepts, and of course these types of things
are often taught in conjunction with Lisp, Scheme, and other
functional languages. Lots of places to draw inspiration from.
-- Gregg