[REBOL] Re: Incomplete Documentation
From: tim:johnsons-web at: 5-Sep-2001 8:42
Hey Guys:
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:06:27PM +0100, Cassani Mario wrote:
> Hi Holger,
>
> > However, we are a small team and have to prioritize
> > carefully. That means
> > sometimes important things get pushed back because more
> > important things
> > take priority. Hopefully, in the future, as RT and the
> > community grow, we
> > will be able to address many of those issues.
> >
> How do you plan to expand the community? I am my company
> "stupid" for I try to open other's people eyes on the many
> wonders of Rebol. Yesterday, during the review I was told being
> unefficient and not respecting the company standards only
> because once I suggested to use Rebol for ftp transfers rather
> than VB. They also told me that I must learn VB in the future
> while I am still using C. VB an .Net to port the POS/retail
> applications to the Internet. I can't and don't want to
> believe that the Internet will be a M$ VB developed environment.
> I am seriusly scared about the future of RT, as told before,
> while I see a lot of things that can be easily made with Rebol
> I often hear: "It's not the standard", "RebWhat? Never heard
Acceptance of rebol by other IT people varies. I recently formed
a small company with a perl programmer. I can see projects coming
where the two languages will complement each other AND work together.
The reasonable best case scenario as to the acceptance of rebol is that
oftentime customers don't care what language the product is
written in. They want results!
I shared the concerns voiced here when I started learning rebol
over a year ago. I still have some of those concerns, but the
fact is : rebol IS still here. And my best guess is that they
will continue to be around forever.
The worst case scenario is RT goes out of business, and a
heroic culture evolves around the existing binaries (and I speak
for /core only), which are already awesome tools.
After all, xtreegold was a major tool for me for years after
symantec abandoned it.
Even if my clients wanted nothing but "C", I would be prototyping
in rebol and using rebol as a template for C abstract data types.
I remember when COBOL and Fortran programmers were finding
so many reasons that the "C" language wasn't going to be around
long....
> before" and so on. In the meanwhile VB and .Net are doing the
> same things with the need of more resources and big lack of
> performances. Rebol must be known *BEFORE* the market is
> collapsed with "new" "standards" such as Flash, C# substituting
> Java and so on....
> It looks like everything is going like my old beloved
> Commodore Amiga.
>
> Zaijian
> Mario
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