[REBOL] Re: [REBOL]Re: Larry Wall's REBOL opinion
From: rebol-list2:seznam:cz at: 26-Nov-2005 14:14
Hello SunandaDH,
Tuesday, November 22, 2005, 5:45:14 PM, you wrote:
Sac> Tim:
>> Major revisions can be headaches, methinks.
Sac> Larry Wall uses an even stronger term: for PERL, it's the apocalypse.
Sac> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/16/a12.html
Sac> But minor revisions can be headaches too....
Sac> ....REBOL.org, which runs purely on REBOL/Core, is a version or two behind
Sac> current /Core releases. Why? Minor incompatibilities that we haven't yet tracked
Sac> down across 120+ scripts would break too many things....
Sac> .... And it's starting to matter as it is not always possible to even load
Sac> the headers of scripts written for later versions. Example:
Sac>
http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=gismo.r&colorSac>
yes
Sac> The script is not rendered in color as it crashes our attempts to parse it
Sac> with the version of Core we run.
It's because the Core is not able to load/next/header ? Post it to
Rambo, it's a bug. Core should be able to load/next/header.
By the way, why you don't use View to make the job? And why you are
using CGI for such a thing? You should make the page when you upload
the script and than use just a html files.
Sac> Backwards and forwards compatibility should be goals of any language intended
Sac> to support applications with a life time measuring more than a few months.
Sac> Sunanda.
--
Best regards,
rebOldes -----------------[ http://oldes.multimedia.cz/ ]
