[REBOL] The Industry Needs REBOL But Thinks it Wants Perl Re:(2)
From: gmassar:dreamsoft at: 20-Sep-2000 13:40
[tim--johnsons-web--com] wrote:
> Hello: MTCW:
>
> [news--ted--husted--com] wrote:
>
> > Jingoism aside, your boss did made a good business decision. If you get
> > hit by a bus, he can easily find a new Perl programmer to maintain the
> > script. Finding a new REBOL programmer might be more difficult. The
> > real cost of software is more often not development, but maintenance.
> >
>
> Yup. And it's kind of a chicken and egg thing. One way to
> get past that sort of barrier is good dialecting that would
> allow non-programmers to do a certain level of program
> mainenance. I'm currently redoing a project that I originally
> did in Borland C++ with BDE. And dialecting is going
> to be considered so that an executive assitant who can
> do web pages can do a large portion of the program
> maintenance. I hope :)
REBOL was designed for non-programmers to write any scripts
because of its "natural" language. Hence, anybody with a good
brain can learn REBOL in a matter of days as compared to Perl or
others that would take weeks to learn. Any REBOL programmer can
be easily replaced. I know industry don't see that way unless
REBOL becomes standardized or something.
Geo Massar
Veteran programmer
