[REBOL] Re: Slashdot REBOL mention
From: lmecir:mbox:vol:cz at: 30-Oct-2001 16:31
Hi Joel,
> > I read Larry Wall's comments on Rebol again and the most funny stuff
> > was his claim, that Perl did use dialecting :-)
> >
>
> I can't find that claim anywhere in Larry's remarks. Could you point
> me to it?
>
> The only comments by Larry that I could find were a link someone else
> posted to a three-year-old email reposted to Google...
>
> -jn-
>
> --
> ; sub REBOL {}; sub head ($) {@_[0]}
> REBOL []
> # despam: func [e] [replace replace/all e ":" "." "#" "@"]
> ; sub despam {my ($e) = @_; $e =~ tr/:#/.@/; return "\n$e"}
> print head reverse despam "moc:xedef#yleen:leoj" ;
Larry wrote
(http://groups.google.com/groups?q=larry+wall+rebol&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=1&ic
=1&selm=36406F9F.40E9CB59%40ndirect.co.uk_NOSPAM):
I don't think REBOL is any more English-like than any other dialecting
language such as, say, Tcl. (Or Perl, for that matter.)
:-))
