[REBOL] Re: CURL -- similar idea to REBOL?
From: allenk:powerup:au at: 10-Aug-2001 6:50
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From: "Frontline Assembly" <[assembly--ns1--whiterose--net]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 12:57 PM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: CURL -- similar idea to REBOL?
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:07:27PM -0500, Brian Hawley wrote:
> > At 08:29 PM 8/7/01 -0400, [assembly--ns1--whiterose--net] wrote:
> > >On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:32:19PM -0700, Ryan Cole wrote:
> > >I could see them having a high burn rate especially since recently they
> > >had received 40m in VC. Which almost seems unprecidented for this type
of
> > >company. Its quite mind boggling actually.
The language has been around for a few years, I think I've still got a zip
of the old MIT curl project that the commercial enterprise stemmed from.
What surprised me during the Curl beta was that after a year and 250 people
working on it, it showed surprisingly little advancement, especially
considering what 4 guys at RT did in the same time.
Cheers,
Allen K
