World: r3wp

Why not use easy puzzles then, then you don't need experts. Codegolf.com 
has a lot of really easy puzzles that everyone can solve, the focus 
lies more on how you solve them, not if you solve them and personally 
I like that approach better than bashing my head against the table 
for hours until I can finally start writing code. I really liked 
the 99 bottles of beer puzzle for example. You don't have to think 
about how you can solve it at all. You could just use a single print 
statement that outputs the lyrics in one go. The thinking comes when 
you try to make the code smaller.

(or longer, or written backwards, or using an online translator in 
real-time, ;-)

I've even seen a karaoke version using tones and bouncing ball DOS 
graphics in the wee days of turbo C  :-D

(if you don't know what Turbo C is ... well  ... then I guess you 
never knew the world without the internet  ;-)

Can't say that I've heard of Turbo C, so far I've only tried 38 languages, 
there are just too many to know them all :)

hehe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

:-)

As for the code golfing, it might also be a good idea to use popular 
topics as a theme. A puzzle that makes use of an API like Twitter, 
YouTube, Flickr, Facebook etc. REBOL seems to be pretty good in the 
internet/Network department, so why not make use of it? Those websites 
are popular for a reason. This could also end up producing some more 
libraries to easily use REBOL with popular APIs.

Wow that list is long :) Brainfuck.. I tried that once. I don't remember 
it fondly.. XD

In Hackety Hack (an app that teaches Ruby programming to kids) one 
of the first examples was how to use Ruby to mash up YouTube with 
the iTunes Top 10 music titles. You ended up getting a list of music 
videos for those top ten songs. It was just 5 lines or so and was 
pretty cool. I wrote an article a year ago teaching Shoes (a Ruby 
GUI toolkit) that mashed up YouTube with Twitter to show you videos 
of the current buzz on the net. Something like that is pretty easy, 
takes just a few lines, but the results are actually usable and fun.

There is REBOL implementation of Brainfuck, if you wanna reconsider:
http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebol/language/bf.r

rebol tutorial has a twitter api under 10 lines IIRC

XD Is there also an implementation of lolcode? (lolcat like language, 
I can haz a hamburger?)

Yeah I skimmed over a few of the reboltutorial articles. Why are 
the code snippets there all on one line? Makes it really hard to 
read.

re reboltutorial.....it looks like a CSS typo rather than a (bad!) 
design decision.

(The site has just changed hosts, and had a complete makeover....there 
are some tweaks and bug fixesstill needed).

I've send him what I think is the fix, but  it looks like reboltutorial 
is having a short post-move break.

Looks like the code snippet formating at REBOLtutorial is fixed now.

Ah great, much better now :)

So... where's the "marketing discusson".... I want to read the comments 
on it.

There was a lot written in R3 Chat.

Thanks.... that's a good place for it.

Heading back to R3 Chat "world". Have a good weekend all.

Congratualtions to Maxim -- most prolific poster of 2009 in the [web-public] 
groups of this world. And to BrianH as a close runner up:
  http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-stats.r?world=r3wp&year=2009


Over 36,000 posts from just over 100 people.....It's an indication 
of the size of the active REBOL developers' community.

And of just how active we are - that's a lot of posts.

I'm not bad :-)

Who's Maxim ?

Possible nominee for user.r REBOL of the Year for 2010, if he keeps 
things up the way he's been going lately :)

This is bizarre .. he's hardly ever here.

Sunanda, I think you should exclude all the non-rebol groups ...

He's been posting a lot lately, especially in the R3 groups and his 
project groups.

oh well, I was top poster for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 ... lol

Guess you've been busy this year :)

no stats for 2010

I'm aiming to get out of the top 3 for 2010

Stats start appearing after 500 or so posts.
Good luck, Graham!

Eh? I want out!!  Spend way too much time posting.

yay!!! it actually was a goal of mine for this year  ;-)

well, for the last year I guess.

A better measure might be words [or bytes] posted rather than total 
posts.....Some people post every new line (understandable given AltME's 
post-losing abilities) and that boosts their post count over those 
of us who....


....use multi-paragraph posts. [That's a hint for you and your 2010 
aspirations, Graham ;)]

Still, however it is measured, we have worthy champions.

then I'd have an even higher count  hehehe (I have a reputation for 
long posts ;-)

Is it only me wondering about IT security concepts in banks since 
every week new tax dodger CDs are sold to the government?

They use one fat Oracle server, that has some bugs and is not patched 
correctly so that everyone can grab some data, burn it and sell it.

true but another very interesting theme without any broad public 
notice is SWIFT. 

unbelievable what there is going on if you digg a little bit deeper.

you probably all are aware that there is a way to electronically 
divert funds without the originator or destination being aware of 
it while doing a xfer... the end result being that money has "disapeared" 
from both accounts.


you need to be on location, but still with a bit of access, its very 
easy to break the system.

Condolences to those rebols from Poland.  How do you deal with a 
loss that heavy?  Best of.

Excuse the lack of "and Russian" above, mistake.

Brian, I probably missed somethnig simple, but what happened in Poland?

you didn't hear about the president and top military brass dying 
in the plane crash?

a plane crashed, carrying the president and many top level govt. 
staff:


The fiery crash killed off a wide cross-section of Poland’s most 
important political, military and financial figures, many of them 
heroes of the anti-communist struggle.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/a-dramatic-end-to-a-divided-era-in-modern-polands-history/article1530957/

and reports are that its the president's direct fault, since he ordered 
the pilot to ignore requests by the control tower which told them 
to stop landing and go to another airport, because of heavy fog.