[REBOL] Re: What does REBOL fix?
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 16-Dec-2003 10:01
Hi, Gabriele,
Gabriele Santilli wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> On Monday, December 15, 2003, 6:02:50 PM, you wrote:
>
> JC> Yes but that is still also true for HTML, XSLT, Perl, Python,
> JC> PHP, Java, C,
> JC> etc..
>
> How do you MOLD some PHP code and send it to another computer? ;-)
>
I disclaim all knowledge re PHP, but here's a trivial Perl client
to fetch and execute/evaluate source from a remote host.
use LWP::Simple;
eval get ("http://your-site-here");
The only point I was making in my earlier comment was that there
are several languages that are highly platform-neutral. It's
also true that many of them are "mobile" in the sense of being
able to migrate run-ning/-nable code across the 'Net.
I guess one has to decide whether a one-line summary for REBOL (or
any other language) is to be:
a) a claim of a unique strength of the language (in contrast to
other languages of the claimant's in-depth knowledge),
b) a bullet point naming something the language does well (whether
or not other languages do so as well),
c) a bumper-sticker slogan intended primarily for fun (as in my
recent list of submissions), or
d) a sufficiently intriguing statement to motivate others to look
at the language.
And, of course, submitting types (b), (c), or (d), and having them
perceived as if of type (a) is the basis is the basis of many
language holy wars! ;-)
-jn-
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