[REBOL] Re: Curl
From: dvydra2:yaho:o at: 15-Mar-2001 22:23
Christian,
Thanks for informing us about Curl. After spending an
hour looking at it, I am sure that:
1. I like REBOL better in most cases
2. I am worried about REBOL's future
Why $52M? For the marketing department, of course.
We have all seen many great technologies shelved due
to competitors better marketing.
My personal complaints for REBOL are:
1. R/View is not marketed as a GUI component for
large client/server systems, specifically servers
written in Java.
2. REBOL is not being ported to Java. Curl announced
their intention to do so.
<reflecting>
Several years ago, I joined Forte Software, which had
technically
the best solution for 3-tier
client/server systems. When Sun announced their Java
EJB spec, Forte stock plummeted from $40 to $3.
Ironically, Sun bought the company for $20/share a few
years later, but the original Forte TOOL language
seems to be dying off.
Forte was very proprietory -- not a single book on the
TOOL language has been published, so REBOL is doing
better in that department.
For all of the evils of Java, one has to admit that
there are many useful toolkits available, a few very
nice IDEs and Java does run on more platforms than
REBOL.
</reflecting>
I hope 2 years from now I will program in REBOL, not
Curl.
Regards,
David
--- Christian Langreiter <[c--langreiter--synerge--at]>
wrote:
> Curl seems to be quite similar in scope and
> direction to REBOL:
>
> http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/curl/wwwpaper.html
> http://www.curl.com
>
> They just got $52m in funding.
>
> Any opinions?
>
> Best regards,
> Chris
>
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