Rebol less popular Lisp, Scheme and Forth amongst Windows Developers
[1/2] from: pwawood::mango::net::my at: 10-May-2005 15:41
Mike Gunderloy, the Windows developer and popular author, held a
reader's survey of his www.larkware.com site. 485 people responded. One
of the questions was Which language(s) are you upset that I left out of
the list above?
The results follow and yes I was the person who mentioned Rebol.
It seems Rebol is still desperately short of publicity.
Regards
Peter
THE RESULTS
SQL (various flavors): 18
C: 14
JavaScript: 14
Delphi: 13
ASP: 6
VBA: 6
VBScript: 6
Lisp: 5
ColdFusion: 4
XSLT: 4
Boo: 3
Scheme: 3
Fortran: 3
FoxPro or VFP: 3
Microsoft Access: 3
Haskell: 2
ABAP: 2
ASP.NET: 2
COBOL: 2
CSS: 2
F#: 2
Forth: 2
XML: 2
Chili: 1
Clarion: 1
C-Omega: 1
csh: 1
D: 1
Eiffel: 1
English: 1
HTML: 1
IDL: 1
Intersystems Cache ObjectScript: 1
Ladder: 1
Lotus/Domino: 1
Lua: 1
nawk: 1
PL/I: 1
PowerBasic: 1
Prolog: 1
PL/S: 1
Rebol: 1
Spanish: 1
Squeak: 1
VB5: 1
XPL: 1
YACC: 1
[2/2] from: carl:cybercraft at: 10-May-2005 20:25
On Tuesday, 10-May-2005 at 15:41:19 Peter WA Wood wrote,
>Mike Gunderloy, the Windows developer and popular author, held a
>reader's survey of his www.larkware.com site. 485 people responded. One
>of the questions was Which language(s) are you upset that I left out of
>the list above?
>
>The results follow and yes I was the person who mentioned Rebol.
>
>It seems Rebol is still desperately short of publicity.
That's a smallish sample, but your conclusion is true enough.
The post here...
http://armprogold.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_armprogold_archive.html#111485821762645486
has some useful things to say about popularising REBOL IMO. For instance...
care less about things like licensing, and care more about making sure
that there are REBOL implementations (pick your TLA -- RSS and SVG have
come up recently, for example) of the standards/acronyms/FADS that will
be replaced in a few years with yet another TLA or five that everyone
will flock to.
REBOL is perfect flocking technology. REBOL lets you build working
prototypes of cross-platform, distributed, secure messaging/computing/
publishing/multi-media applications in hours or even minutes. Some
REBOL prototype should be among the first of any new TLA searches,
with a basic, cross-platform implementation of the new acronym.
The acronym he suggests as a good, current example is ATOM, (RSS's replacement, perhaps?)
But regardless of that approach, he hits on one problem I have with recommending REBOL
and that is the dearth of good examples of REBOL programs to point people to. Cross-platform,
client-server stuff would be ideal, the clients being the flashy front-end that would
pull people in. But where are they?
-- Carl Read.