[REBOL] Re: Smart Client
From: ingo:2b1 at: 1-Oct-2003 15:03
Hi Romano,
Romano Paolo Tenca wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
<..>
> What I do not understand well is that people often seems to wait everything
> from RT. I used many languages in my life and I have always used external
> libraries and third party tools, why cannot it happen with Rebol? There is
> some obscure reason? RT cannot make everything and Rebol should be a very
> limited language if only RT could release additional features.
... as I see it, there are two main obstacles to the adoption of third
party libs/tool in Rebol
1) I guess, in all those languages using a third party lib doesn't
increase the number of files to be installed in any significant way,
whereas in Rebol - in the simplest case - it's an increase by 33% (of my
maths serve me well) (Rebol executable, your script, AND the third party
lib ... ;-)
> There are at least 3 menu styles around.
2) Where? Or in other words, a central repositry where you'll be sure to
find everything is still missing in the mindset of most Rebolers, though I
hope rebol.org will get there.
Kind regards,
Ingo
