[REBOL] Re: Reverse API
From: ryanc:iesco-dms at: 13-Jun-2001 11:28
I am sure this is not the answer your looking for but it is universally
accessable and so easy to implement I had to mention it.
rebol --do "send [ryanc--iesco-dms--com] {it works!} quit"
Another option I suppose is to use Rugby.
--Ryan
Karl Robillard wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 June 2001 20:29, Terry Brownell wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Q. Is there any way to access Rebol as an API?
> >
> > Interesting thought isn't it?
> >
> > T Brownell
>
> Not only interesting but highly desirable.
>
> When I learned about REBOL (before it was available and before is was being
> called Lava) the very first thing I wanted to do with it was use it as a
> 'modern' cross-platform AREXX replacement. AREXX was wonderful in that it
> allowed applications to extend the language (adding 'natives' from whatever
> language your app was written in) and share a common macro/scripting
> language. That is what I thought REBOL was going to be. When that didn't
> happen I was sure REBOL/Command would be embeddable in a C application. It
> seems to me that RT is more interested in making REBOL its own isolated
> platform (witness the view 'desktop' and the reluctance to make a browser
> plug-in) rather than a tool which can be embedded in other systems.
>
> If I could change only one thing about REBOL it would be this: To be able to
> define natives and call REBOL code from my C apps.
>
> -Karl
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