rebol cosiderations at ucsd cogsci department

Hi All. Today I showed my cogsci professor my rebol program. Amazing how smart he is. He understood my whole code in a glance! Anyway, he was really excited about rebol. So excited, in fact, that he is thinking about changing the entire cogsci cirriculum at ucsd to use rebol instead of c (next year)! He has been looking for a replacement for c for a while (wants an interpreted language instead). Another alternative is Perl. Also, my classmates have been spreading word of me using rebol to other proffessors! Someone in my class mentioned it to our HCI (human computer interaction) proffessor who is a big fan of scheme. Apparantly, he is very interested in info on rebol. I'll have to show it to him!! bye for now, Rishi

I know exactly what you mean. I'm writing a REBOL search engine for a client and there was some concern in the office that I was using REBOL instead of one of the "accepted" languages. But then I showed my code to the person who was making the most noise. I said, "would you like me to put comments in there for you?" and he said, "No need. REBOL seems to be commented by its very nature." Very true. Since I use 'words which are relative to what I am asking them to do, I don't bother commenting my scripts much. Here's a sample: foreach help-file file-list [ file-contents: read help-file if find file-contents cgi-input/keyword [ append pages-with-keyword help-file parse file-contents [thru <TITLE> copy text to </TITLE> (append help- file-titles text)] ] ] -Ryan