[REBOL] Re: French REBOL book.
From: jason:cunliffe:verizon at: 13-Feb-2002 22:56
From: "Carl Read" <[carl--cybercraft--co--nz]>
> Just out of interest, has anyone here seen the "REBOL Programming"
> book by Olivier Auverlot yet? Being in French means it's not of much
> use to me, but if it's good, wouldn't a translation into English make
> sense?
YES
I have it. [I ordered it online from Eyrolles own site]. It's great. Well
written, beautifuly designed. imho Nicest REBOl book to date to read and to
hold.
I wrote to Olivier Auverlot a while ago offering to translate it into
English. He wrote back promptly, expressing interest and then again saying
the publishers were looking into it. But I am still waiting to hear some
real news. Guess it's time to nudge the project along again.. In my
experience, doing busines in France is often like this and requires
considerable patience, perseverence and diplomacy.
Also, as enthusiastic as I am, I imagine that publishing a REBOL book takes
some guts, especially in current market.
Against:
Few have heard of it, very low media profile, not much real 'news' even on
RT, gooogle searches mostly show old 1999, 2000 links. ie hot new technology
is pehasp not so hot...No visible uses of rebol and free opensource tools
have taken the limelight increasingly among 'new discoveries'
For:
REBOL has matured. Lots of cool new stuff, new knowledge, new awareness of
rebol-like technology and applications, including .NET gorilla.
Olivier Auverlot's book is well done and would translate very well into
English as it is. ready to go..
Further:
Even better than straight translation I would love to invite people here to
help add some new chapters. First, extend the knowledge on /View and /VID.
Then nwe hcapters on Rugby, Vanilla, and Flash.
Flash with REBOL could address client-side and serverside, for example with
Oldes' %make-swf.r Flash books sell briskly {Flash with XML, PHP,MySQL
etc}..and now that Macromedia has recently proposed to open up Flash use as
non-browser based platform [like /View].
Things are going to heat up. Meanwhile ever more deals:
http://macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/dotnet_framework.html
http://macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/motorola_flashplayer.html
http://macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/nokia_mediaterminal.html
Flash 6 looks like it will feature full interactive video conferencing and
streaming. REBOL could play very very well with Flash.
Then an overview chapter with some [ahem] useful info about IOS.
And perhaps finally a roundtable discussion asking rebollers about
'programming with rebol' to better give the human and pragrmatic flavor of
why is so much addictive fun. Rebol applications.. rebol in schools..
suggestions..?
./Jason