World: r3wp

Micha,   sound/rate: sound/rate / 2    ; down one octave

But Rebol sound port is buggy.  At the moment I am working on a FMOD 
interface (www.fmod.org)

heh. the rebol-unit author said that he wasn't maintaining it and 
I could do whatever I wanted with it as if that were a *bad* thing 
:-D

There is another Rebol Unit script call RUn. Now in v1.7
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rebol-unit/

That's good. I'll probably keep playing with this one a bit, partly 
for the learning experience as much as anything else.

Run is done by RebolTof, Belgium developper, who works for Belgium's 
army.
So RUn was develop and is used in real case.


He has also done RAPId (Rebol API Documentor), a JavaDoc like Document 
generator for Rebol
 https://sourceforge.net/projects/rapid/


For the english doc, contact him directly [christophe-:-coussement-:-mil-:-be]

Thanks for both of those links, DideC. I am very interested in taking 
a closer look at RAPId!

dumb question: is there a REBOL build with AGG available yet?

www.REBOL.net

Look for alpha releases...

I'm guessing it's the "rvdraw" over in the windows section :-(

Are any plans being made to make a rebol build to take advantage 
of the AMD Athlon 64 FX CPU?

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_9485_9488%5E9536,00.html

argh, I hate it when I can think of a million better ways to run 
the place I'm working. 

Especially since I know I'm wrong!

Is there a rebol script to download Open Financial Exchange data 
from a bank?

http://www.ofx.net/ofx/default.asp

argh. as soon as I fix the damage I just did to my site source, I'm 
putting this sucker into source control.

Welcome to the dark side Brain.  Everything slows down from here.

heh.

Sorry Brian, I was just on the www.thebrain.com, so I swaped the 
"ia" in your name.

It's not the first time.

I'm not just a bad spelling, I'm just dyslexic, I'm not just high 
functioning autistic, I also have a primitive pattern buffer.

The embarrassing thing is that this is not the first time I've accidentally 
erased a part of my site. I still hadn't learned my lesson, I guess. 
:-)

Do you have an undelete tool?  In this case it might work.

no, it's only a half-dozen files, and I have the output. It's a minor 
matter to fix.

and it's now been fixed and the new content uploaded.

Has anybody considered contributing REBOL code to the language shootout?

What is that?

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/

A benchmark comparison site for various languages.

Brian, from the language shootout FAQ : 
    Why don't you include REBOL™?
    REBOL™ is a commercial product.

only open source languages are allowed

Okay, Vincent, thanks. I didn't know.

i do not yhink that the Intel C is less commercial than rebol.

I agree, I missed theses ones, $399 for Intel(R) C++ on linux, and 
$699 for Intel(R) Fortran - not really  "free / open-source" products! 
and they are both included.

perhaps the problem was with the old rebol license - but the new 
one allows even free commercial use - it isn't the case for Intel(R) 
products.

I would be interested in seeing how REBOL compares to other languages. 
The only trouble is that too many people take benchmarks as gospel 
truth. The site authors go out of their way to say that it's just 
for fun, but still you get folks pointing to shootout stats when 
discussing languages.

A stat I use is based on Moore's Law....size (for same feature set) 
 makes REBOL a win every time.

The main stat I use is "do I like it?" REBOL's doing pretty good 
so far ;-)

aha, that is similar to Christopher Alexander's "Quality without 
a name" ("A Timeless Way of Building", much better IMO than "A Pattern 
Language")

yes indeed. Ruby scores very high on that quality for me. Perl, Python, 
PHP ... not so much.

I'm having about as many "oh, that's nifty" moments with REBOL as 
I was when first getting the hang of Ruby

a good architecture takes an open space and divides it into places 
where stress for the human is minimized.

(more statements about buildings, people, and sofware)

heh. I think I've been referred to that title before by a Ruby person. 
Twice now. Okay, I'll go look at the library.

(another superb, and very small, is "On the Synthesis of Form" by 
the same author.  Best one to start with, and dirt cheap)

Notes on the Synthesis of Form
?

Due to Bob Dylan songs in my youth, I accepted that I would never 
understand the meaning of life.  After reading Alexander, I found 
that evasive goal.

yes, exactly.

He started writing a book on "The Nature of Order" but not sure if 
ever completed...

All right, that's two books on hold at the library. I'm cheap. I 
read a book a couple times, then decide if I want to buy it :-)

aha! it is complete, all 4 books... https://www.patternlanguage.com/cgi-bin/patternl/order.py