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Rebol : The Official Guide

 [1/15] from: richard:coffre:francetelecom at: 16-Apr-2002 15:19


Hi fellows, What do you think about this book ? BTW is there any other book useful to go deeper in Rebol ? TIA Richard Coffre France Telecom Orbiscom T=E9l. : 01 47 61 46 28 Share what you know, learn what you don't

 [2/15] from: gawain:macmillan:juwimm at: 16-Apr-2002 16:32


Hello Richard. The Official Guide is the best of the books, IMO. Other good documentation is unfortunately rare. There only are 4 books ... Offical Guide View User Guide Command User Guide (View Guide + 2 or 3 chapters at the end) Rebol for Dummies (beginners only) They are also all in need of an update. arra best, Gawain ----- Original Message ----- From: "COFFRE Richard FTO" <[richard--coffre--francetelecom--com]> To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 3:19 PM Subject: [REBOL] Rebol : The Official Guide Hi fellows, What do you think about this book ? BTW is there any other book useful to go deeper in Rebol ? TIA Richard Coffre France Telecom Orbiscom Tél. : 01 47 61 46 28 Share what you know, learn what you don't

 [3/15] from: anton:lexicon at: 17-Apr-2002 2:29


It's kind of boring because the subject is a simple database... But having said that I am glad I got it. I read about half of it and learned quite a few things that I didn't know before. It has a very good introduction to rebol, and discusses series, which is at the heart of rebol. (Mmm.. it's those simple database examples that fail to excite the reader. I think it's a fact of life I have to face.) Anton.

 [4/15] from: ronald:free at: 16-Apr-2002 19:42


Bonjour Gawain, Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 4:32:44 PM, vous avez écrit: GM> Hello Richard. GM> The Official Guide is the best of the books, IMO. GM> Other good documentation is unfortunately rare. GM> There only are 4 books ... GM> Offical Guide GM> View User Guide GM> Command User Guide (View Guide + 2 or 3 chapters at the end) GM> Rebol for Dummies (beginners only) GM> They are also all in need of an update. GM> arra best, GM> Gawain GM> ----- Original Message ----- GM> From: "COFFRE Richard FTO" <[richard--coffre--francetelecom--com]> GM> To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]> GM> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 3:19 PM GM> Subject: [REBOL] Rebol : The Official Guide GM> Hi fellows, GM> What do you think about this book ? GM> BTW is there any other book useful to go deeper in Rebol ? GM> TIA GM> Richard Coffre GM> France Telecom Orbiscom GM> Tél. : 01 47 61 46 28 GM> "Share what you know, learn what you don't" GM> -- GM> To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to GM> [rebol-request--rebol--com] with "unsubscribe" in the GM> subject, without the quotes. Hello rebolers, There's another one, but in french : go to Auverlot reb site on view/desktop... -- Cheers, Ronald

 [5/15] from: geza67:freestart:hu at: 16-Apr-2002 23:24


Hello Gawain,
> Other good documentation is unfortunately rare. > There only are 4 books ...
Olivier Auverlot: Programmation REBOL. A french book from Edition Eyrolles. From the Eyrolles site you can download some sample chapters and the source code of the examples. I've just bought it in Bruxelles and I think it is worth every euro :-) (40 or so). -- Best regards, Geza mailto:[geza67--freestart--hu]

 [6/15] from: chalz:earthlink at: 17-Apr-2002 1:23


'Dummies' is, yeah, intended for beginners, but it's also a good quick ref. And of course they all need updating - they need updating every time REBOL is updated. However, it's really not worth it to update a print item until a major change of content or time - ie, 6mos and REBOL/Core 2.7, or wait until /Core 3, that sort of thing. Especially with as little exposure as REBOL really has (compared to, say, Java).

 [7/15] from: olivier:auverlot:ac-lille at: 17-Apr-2002 8:19


Thank you for your compliments ;-) Regards Olivier

 [8/15] from: christophe:coussement:mil:be at: 17-Apr-2002 8:49


The best book -and most complete- IMHO is theone written by Olivier AUVERLOT: http://membres.lycos.fr/rebolfrance/livre/livre.html It's a very good tutorial, and can be use as quick reference (I mean: it has an useful and well constituted index). For now, it's the only book I know which talks about /View :) For about 45 EUR you will learn a lot, if you can understand French ... ==christophe

 [9/15] from: gawain:macmillan:juwimm at: 17-Apr-2002 19:56


Pardon. I stand corrected. There are indeed 5 books. The french language is, so I'm told, both elegant and descriptive but I unfortunately can't read or write it. All the english books (incl. "dummies") were helpful for me to start with and still are as reference works. However the steep learning curve that comes after mastering the one-liners can only be climbed by reading the web-docs, peoples scripts and this very helpful and friendly list. So thanks to one and all for that. arra best, Gawain

 [10/15] from: louisaturk:eudoramail at: 17-Apr-2002 13:35


Oliver, When is your book going to be available in English? Louis At 08:19 AM 4/17/2002 +0200, you wrote:

 [11/15] from: olivier:auverlot:ac-lille at: 22-Apr-2002 8:07


the book is announced on the page http://www.wileyeurope.com/cda/product/0,,0470846755,00.html Regards Olivier

 [12/15] from: atruter:hih:au at: 22-Apr-2002 17:45


This site: Relative-Expression Builder Object Language RT site: Relative Expression-Based Object Language A typo perhaps? ;) Regards, Ashley

 [13/15] from: carl:cybercraft at: 22-Apr-2002 22:16


On 22-Apr-02, AUVERLOT Olivier wrote:
> the book is announced on the page > http://www.wileyeurope.com/cda/product/0,,0470846755,00.html
August 2002 . How up-to-date will it be? Will it cover View 1.3 for instance, (perhaps written to coincide with its release), or just 1.2? (And has it an index?;) Glad it's coming to the English-speaking world, anyway. -- Carl Read

 [14/15] from: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 22-Apr-2002 13:01


Hi Olivier, On Monday, April 22, 2002, 8:07:47 AM, you wrote: AO> the book is announced on the page AO> http://www.wileyeurope.com/cda/product/0,,0470846755,00.html Is it already available? Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

 [15/15] from: olivier:auverlot:ac-lille at: 22-Apr-2002 14:37


It is the translation of the French book :
> Core 2.5 > View 1.2 > Command 2.0
Regards Olivier ;-)