[REBOL] Re: Curl
From: jamesh:volition-inc at: 14-Mar-2001 13:48
> http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/curl/wwwpaper.html
> http://www.curl.com
>
> They just got $52m in funding.
>
> Any opinions?
Hmmm...this kind of thing seems to be quite frequent :)
My gut reactions:
1. It is more academic feeling, right down to the developers thinking being
like TeX is a good thing :)
2. They are much more interested in being object-oriented, which I don't see
as a good thing.
3. The screenshots were of the horribly ugly UNIX UI variety :)
There are a lot of languages out there with ties to the web---Perl, Ruby,
Python, Erlang--and just as many others with lots of good ideas, like
Objective Caml, Lisp, and Prolog. What the REBOL developers got right is a
brilliant combination of smallness, expressiveness, and usefulness, plus a
distinct lack of language designer curmudgeonliness. It may not be the best
language for all purposes, but it is perhaps the best balance of what is
needed to be productive.
James
