[REBOL] Re: Introduction
From: alan_otterstad:mikronvinyl at: 25-Apr-2001 8:40
haliluyah.....(i know..spelling)....finally...another mv database and basic
pgmr in here.........
welcome to the rebol group...i'm just learning rebol and read alot of these
posts....
i'm hoping to eventually use rebol at work to make the mv work more
effectively with the rest of the pc/unix world....
welcome Tom
(stuck on sequoia pro fer now...porting to D3 soon (my project)....oracle
(grrr) and synquest (who dey???)...
anyway welcome to the reb group....
alan
from Tom
Hello all,
May you only receive this post once. Yesterday I posted from my webhosts
email browser and it got a little carried away and sent several posts. The
webhost is currently head scratching on the problem.
My name is Tom Schaeper and I'm and language junkie. I love new languages
because the paradigm of each one forces a new way of thinking about a
problem.
I am at heart a Basic programmer and my profession is as a programmer in
PICK/Universe/Unidata databases. I chose that vocation because the
enviroment encouraged creating applications as opposed to writing code,
much
like REBOL.
Over the years I have dabbled in:
Forth: wrote a pong style game on an Atari 800
C: Not really my style
Snobol: Kinda fun once you get the syntax
APL: Wonderfully compact language
LISP: Very powerful, but pretty ugly
Fortran: I prefer BASIC
COBOL: Just say no : )
PL/I : see COBOL
PASCAL: Fun, but a lot of work
Perl: Created dynamic replicating web pages
REBOL is just amazing. So much power in so little space! Reminds me of
Forth
with a readable syntax. If it had a good multidimensional database behind
it, I think it would rule the world.
Thanks for your patience with my ramblings. I enjoy all your posts and read
every one.
Take care,
Tom Schaeper
