A lingua franca for the Internet

Anyone else here read "The Economist"? There's an interesting article in this week's edition (22-28Sep01, Technology Quarterly page 16) on the future of programming languages: "A lingua franca for the Internet" Though it doesn't mention Rebol, it could almost be a manifesto for RT..... ....programming languages face a daunting challenge of helping to turn the Internet into a more intelligent place (due to the Internet) the elegance of computer languages--so dear to software gurus--has been sacrificed for easy of use....hence the rise of the quick-and-dirty scripting languages ....a programming language that incorporates concepts from artificial intelligence (like Lisp, Prolog) will no doubt appear when the time is right---and leave the likes of Java and C# by the wayside It is...within the realms of a small start-up's aspirations to develop the (replacement for the) Java language (Bits in braces my attempt to add context to short quotes). The full article should be online, but I think www.economist.com operate a pay-per-view for a few weeks after publication. Tell your CEO/CIO that you've found the language the Economist is prophecying! --Colin.

We should tell "the economist" about rebol. How do we contact them? --Ryan [Sanghabum--aol--com] wrote:

> Anyone else here read "The Economist"? > There's an interesting article in this week's edition (22-28Sep01, > [rebol-request--rebol--com] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes.

> We should tell "the economist" about rebol. How do we contact them?

Here is the link for "Letters to the editor": mailto:[letters--economist--com] Not to hard to find on economist.com Carl Youngblood

I have sent an email to: [letters--economist--com] subject: REGARDING "A lingua franca for the Internet" REBOL I reserve the right to whine and complain - but I "plug" rebol every chance I get :>) tj On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:10:06PM -0700, Jason Cunliffe wrote:

> > We should tell "the economist" about rebol. How do we contact them? > > http://www.economist.com/about/contactus.cfm > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [rebol-request--rebol--com] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes.