[REBOL] Re: Is Rebol OO?
From: behrangsa:ya:hoo at: 12-Jan-2004 16:37
Hi
> JC> ...whether it behaves differently or if its
> sytnax is consistent
> JC> or not with their expectations and the parent
> language.
>
> People don't have to know that a dialect has a
> "parent language".
> What's important is that all the similarities you
> *can* leverage with
> embedded languages reduce the "impedance mistmatch"
> for users and
> makes it more accessible. The less there is to
> learn, the better, in
> most cases.
I totally agree with that. Learning a new dialect
(syntax) is not harder than learning a new API, at
least for experienced programmers who have worked at
least with 3+ languages in real world scenarios.
Having worked with Java and C++ alot I didn't feel any
difficulties in learning Jython, (and REBOL of course
;)
According to the messages sent to the list I learned
that REBOL is not OO. But it doesn't look to be
procedural or something else too. Isn't it an instance
of a new yet to be named paradigm??
Behrang.
