[REBOL] Re: [REBOL]Re: Larry Wall's REBOL opinion
From: rebol-list2:seznam:cz at: 26-Nov-2005 14:35
Hello Tim,
Tuesday, November 22, 2005, 7:33:16 PM, you wrote:
TJ> * SunandaDH-aol.com <SunandaDH-aol.com> [051122 07:43]:
>>
>> Tim:
>>
>> > Major revisions can be headaches, methinks.
>>
>> Larry Wall uses an even stronger term: for PERL, it's the apocalypse.
>>
>> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/16/a12.html
TJ> Apocalypse huh? Perl 6.0 has been in the can so long, I sometimes
TJ> wonder if it is "apocryphal" <wink>
>> But minor revisions can be headaches too....
TJ> Tell me about it!
TJ> cniweb is a very rebol friendly hoster, and hosts a number of
TJ> different rebol users. We had a panic attack in March of 2003 when the
TJ> hoster upgraded rebol and scripts were breaking *everywhere*
TJ> But as soon as he restored the original, all was good and he hasn't
TJ> dared to do an upgrade since.....
TJ> Sorry, - I can't remember what was breaking...
TJ> But a pre-2003 binary lives on the machines hosting the virtual
TJ> domains for that hoster.
TJ> tim
>> ....REBOL.org, which runs purely on REBOL/Core, is a version or two behind
>> current /Core releases. Why? Minor incompatibilities that we haven't yet tracked
>> down across 120+ scripts would break too many things....
>>
And one more comment - problems with incompatibities has all
languages. Even running old PHP code on the latest PHP is not without
problems.
Some of my older Rebol script do not work with the latest Rebol, but
that's OK as they are old and I don't need them. If I would need them
it would not be such a problem to fix it and I still have all the
old Rebol version so I can run the script from the correct interpret.
That's the biggest advantage that Rebol is so compact:)
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Best regards,
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