[REBOL] Re: Help any documentation recommended?
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 10-Nov-2002 11:55
Hi Chris,
CM> I have been learning REBOL/Core on and off for the past year, using the PDF Core
Manual,
CM> but I cannot find a similar manual for View, except for paper-books, which currently
are out my price range!
CM> Any suggestions to learn the View Dialect?
http://www.rebol.com/docs/view-guide.html
http://www.rebol.com/docs/easy-vid.html
http://www.rebol.com/view/demos/easy-vid.r
http://www.codeconscious.com/rebsite/vid-notes.r
http://www.nwlink.com/~ecotope1/reb/easy-draw.r
Also, check out the Cybarite reb site from the View desktop. There are
a couple VID and View usage scripts there.
CM> Is a script the program and the Dialect a variation on Rebol/* allowing it to perform
a more specific task, i.e
CM> database control, GUI system, external library etc? If so is there any documentation
on creating Dialects as
CM> the core manual doesn't mention these specifically. Mine is dated Sept 2000 Ver 2.3.
A dialect is a specialized language which may, or may not, be a
variation of REBOL. VID is a dialect which is very much *like* REBOL in
many ways, but it is not exactly REBOL or a subset thereof. the PARSE
function uses a dialect itself (a dialect that you use to build
dialects :). Dialects are like domain specific languages - a term you
may have heard elsewhere. There are some examples on the REBOL Forces
site, and CodeConscious has some parse related stuff as well.
-- Gregg