[REBOL] Re: Tuples - Was Pair! thread
From: carl:cybercraft at: 9-Feb-2002 14:50
On 09-Feb-02, Joel Neely wrote:
> Hi, again, Carl,
> Carl Read wrote:
>>
>> Let's say you got your wish and REBOL was open-sourced and some
>> here gave their REBOLs the ability to compare pairs for lesser
>> and greater. Now, what's to stop them puting scripts on the Net
>> that require those comparisons?
>>
> Absolutely nothing.
> Except their own good sense and wish to have other people actually
> USE their scripts. (And my earlier post touches on the point that
> variations of this sort are *already* happening WRT various
> libraries that people base subsequent code on.)
> Why do we have to make the assumption that programmers must have
> a centralized, absolute control "to stop them" from destroying
> the universe?
The assumption is based on experience, the experience being that the
OS that's dominant will be where cross-platform software gets mostly
tested and if it's found to run on that then it's assumed it'll be
okay for everywhere else - or if it proves not to be, it's elsewhere
where the problem lies. Good central control can almost make that
second assumption true.
Don't forget that one day a large percentage of the "programmers" of
REBOL could be of the amateur web-designer type who now hand-code
their own HTML. REBOL might be the only programming they've ever
done, (they of course starting with VID), and if their scripts work
for them, that'll be good enough for them to place their scripts on
the Net.
REBOL's very like HTML in my opinion, (why else do we have a "reb"?),
and I'd hate to see it go through some form of browser war. "At
least the bugs are cross-platform" is a comment one of my REBOL
scripts received. I want it to stay that way.
(Big snip of the rest of Joel's comments - but all read. Oh, and the
wag
was Winston Churchill, Joel.)
--
Carl Read
