[REBOL] Re: newbie - How to
From: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 22-Jun-2003 12:12
Hi Daril,
On Saturday, June 21, 2003, 10:42:40 PM, you wrote:
DN> Respecfully I don think this is accurate. No flames
DN> please.
No flames here, and I don't want to mean rude.
DN> If a tool fails the requirements of a problem, no-one
DN> will pursue the tool further. Running on many
DN> platforms still means failure.
Exactly, but the point here was the requirement. I do not
understand what it is. If you want to write HelloWorld.r, it's
just
print "Hello World!"
and it works across all versions of REBOL.
Now, REBOL probably has a lot of problems, but I really don't see
HelloWorld as being one of them.
DN> But REBOL appears a tragedy if you need to integrate
DN> with OS features, hardware, or applications. This
DN> limits some important uses in Windows, Mac and other
DN> environments.
It really depends; you can do that, you just have to pay for it. I
don't want to discuss if this is good or bad, this is just how it
is right now (and it could change in the near future).
Also, why do you need REBOL if you are writing something that can
be written more easily in another language? You don't. I need
REBOL because what I write in it would require 2x the time in most
other languages (10x on some of them).
Regards,
Gabriele.
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Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer
Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r
