[REBOL] Re: bugs are discouraging (was MAKE-DIR Problem)
From: lennart:nylen:biz at: 22-Nov-2002 17:54
2002-11-22 12:48:38, "Alban Gabillon" <[Alban--Gabillon--univ-pau--fr]>
wrote:
Greetings fellow student!
>Why don't they correct all these basic bugs related to ftp?
Please be aware that REBOL has not been around as long as e.g. C or
PERL. It is still under devleopment and if I'm not mistaken you're
probably using a 'stable' release and not the latest public betas
available over at http://www.reboltech.com/downloads/ (Ending a
sentence with a URL is a bit tricky. Should one omit the period or
should one risk giving people "faulty" URLs?).
Essentially, Carl et al are probably working on it.
>Such bugs discourage newbies like me.
>I am currently doing some research in my university. I intended to
>use rebol for prototyping. I think I am going to give up this idea.
I don't know what type of prototyping you intend to perform. With that
said I do think it seems a bit premature to give up on REBOL just
because it doesn't work flawlessly out of the box? Your at uni - rise
to the challenge. >Insert prefered deity here> knows that you'll end
up working with a lot worse programming languages than REBOL (as you
can see I presume you're a CS student of some sort).
>Is the rebol language only for specialists who are able to rewrite
>most of the functions by themselves ?
No, but programming is presently not for all. IMNSHO REBOL is a big
step in the right direction as it's much more natural than quite a few
other languages out there.
Yours Sincerely
/Lennart Fridén ([lennart--nylen--biz])
The World is not sane so why should I be?
