[REBOL] Re: article
From: bry:itnisk at: 27-Aug-2003 21:09
the quite maddening can be was in reference
to rebol as a language which for no rational
reason sometimes reminds me of someone
speaking English, but being used to a
language with different grammatical rules.
Yeah I thought about smiling when I sent off
the article, but by then it was too late.
Glad you liked it, about the registry
details it's also possible to use DDE from
an asynchronous pluggable protocol by using
the proper DDE registry settings.
Some of the protocols in the registry have
examples of this.
One of the things I was hoping was that some
of the people who are better at rebol than I
am, who're also interested in expanding
Rebol in Windows, would see this as a
possible way of doing it, and come with some
cool ideas. Since an Asynchronous Pluggable
protocol can be used anywhere that a link
can be used that means that one can have a
reb:// link in a Microsoft Office document,
in an Open Office document, in a shortcut,
and in various web technologies that
understand linking.
Another thing I've been playing with is the
possibility of using asynchronous protocols
to communicate between different programming
environments, in my case between Rebol and
Erlang. The syntax I've been using is
reb:/// and erl:/// where the space in
between the second and the third / can be
used as a holder for metadata, for example a
link reb://subject=convers3/code follows...
sockets might be better for that of course,
but the protocol might be a good way to
start a conversation between the two
environments.
Anyway glad that you found parts of the
article interesting.
