[REBOL] Over 40 Platforms make for good press, but.... Re:(3)
From: news:ted:husted at: 24-Sep-2000 7:06
On 9/23/2000 at 5:19 PM [tbrownell--yahoo--com] wrote:
> Same story with the first Mac's. Ended up going the clone route like
everybody else. Even Amiga's looked nice, but just didn't have the
status quo.
I think by "status quo" you really mean applications. People have
always chosen computers based on whether it runs the software they want
or need. The computer is actually a commodity -- it's the applications
that matter.
Likewise, a developer chooses a programming platform based on the
available libraries, toolkits, and support networks. To many of us,
things like Perl, Python, and REBOL (or PHP, ASP, and JSP) are
commodities. We can use one in the morning and another in the
afternoon. Whether we choose one over the other for a pariticular
project often depends on more than the core language, but on everything
that goes with it now (and everything we believe will go with it
later).
-Ted.
