[REBOL] Re: VID, %, dialects WAS: percent! - new datatype request
From: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 14-Jun-2002 20:06
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> Gregg Irwin
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> Subject: [REBOL] Re: VID, %, dialects WAS: percent! - new datatype
> request
> I guess my thinking is that VID is going to be there, and will be a
> reference, but other interface dialects will, and should, emerge. I see
> dialects more like a toolkit, or a library, than part of the core language.
Hi, that's all OK. I just wanted to point out that fragmenting the developer
community in a group using VID, one using DVI and the next using IDV will
decrease the community power. If we all concentrate on one goal it's better.
This doesn't mean that VID shouldn't be expanded etc. it has to!
Here in Germany we have a saying like: If you try to catch two rabbits the
chance it big you won't catch any.
Adding new styles to VID is perfect, creating a complete new general GUI dialect
that's not compatible with VID... I don't know if it's that useful to spend time
with this. Robert