[REBOL] Re: REBOL Cookbook in Beta
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 2-Sep-2003 10:10
Hi Mike,
MJM> I'm too steeped in languages like awk,
MJM> *nix shells and Basic to "get it" too
MJM> easily, I'm afraid. (But I *will* try!)
It took me a while to let go of some things, and to really starting
understanding how REBOL works. I still have to catch myself when I
think in terms of other languages, but it gets easier.
Since you're a *nix/AWK guy (I was a BASIC/VB guy for a loooooong
time), any thoughts you have about what would help people with your
experience use REBOL would be great. I've written a small AWKish tool
(RAWK) and some simple pseudo-emulations for other *nix utils (grep,
wc, cut, cat, cmp) but I lack the perspective to know how to make them
really useful and appealing to *nix folks. e.g. what are the most
important utilities? Should they just be REBOL functions, or how best
to emulate things like redirection without having to encap them all?
Stuff like that.
-- Gregg
