[REBOL] Re: Tuples - Was Pair! thread
From: carl:cybercraft at: 9-Feb-2002 1:52
On 08-Feb-02, [Robbo1Mark--aol--com] wrote:
> The internet is based on agreed communication standards and
> protocols & functionality regardless of whether your working in
> REBOL, Perl, Python, JAVA or Microsoft DotNet.
I was talking about REBOL scripts, not Net protocols.
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? It's a recipe for a mess. Like HTML and
Javascript are a mess. When HTML and Javascript are updated, are all
browsers updated at the same time? No, because they're produced by a
wide range of competing factions. With REBOL we're currently
avoiding that kind of mess and yet still getting it on a very wide
range of platforms. I wish REBOL did everything I wanted too, but
open-sourcing it would stop it doing what's most important, and
that's being compatible across platforms.
--
Carl Read
