World: r3wp

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

In the other Rebol worlds we had a group of books

The main stat I use is 
do I like it?"" ... mine is "time to market".

which core versions allow you to do 'launch or 'call ?

Anyone else use quintessential mp3 player?

It has a drop directory for playlist updating

Graham, REBOL/View 1.2.48.3.1 29-Jul-2004 Core 2.6.0 does, so I assume 
Core 2.6.0 does. I don't know about the other versions.

Just wanted to give everyone a piece of advice regarding spyware 
and how to really keep it from effecting you.  Permissions is the 
key word here.  Disable all access to prone registry keys and startup 
directories and other entry points.  Its extremely effective.

I might make a util some time for doing all this so that before you 
install software you can quickly undo the changes.

another tip : make everyone run as a limited user in XP

which Keys specifically Paul?

There are many Colin.  I would get more specific if I had more time. 
 But the browser keys for internet explorer in both and default users 
key as well as any established user keys.  Also a mus tis the RUN 
keys in the same.  Deny access for the proper group your account 
or others accounts on the machine are using.  There is also the shell 
key you would  want to protect also as many viruses like to alter 
the shell line.  Put permissions on autoexec.bat autoexec.nt  win.ini 
system.ini config.sys  and config.nt also.

any one here have mathlab software?

I used it 6 years ago, but only coded small example for one of my 
friends. I am imo no more fluent with the tool ...

hum, I need a dll built up from a mathlab project...

never did anything like that .... you seem to like matlab functionality 
:-) It kind reminded me of rebol ...

oh its, not my project, its the opposite, trying to find someone 
to convert a third party mathlab project into a easy to use stand-along 
rebol dll with only one .h file to translate...

its current a multi-file ordeal with some mathlab scripts ...