World: r3wp

BrianH: tWhy do you think concatenative langs cannot be used for 
pratical projects?

BrianH: well you clearly know tons more about languages than me, 
I know them only more from "user perspective"

I am not a purist , but if I see something .NET / Mono .. I am not 
that interested, but I see now that it has many implementaitons yes

Kib2, the model is too weird for most people to make work well, and 
the benefits don't outweigh the weirdness (unlike Erlang).

As for Cat, I was not as interested in any existing implementation 
as I was in the language semantics. I figured that I would make my 
own implementation if I wanted to use it.

(just btw.. factor is compiled, slava also posted a lot of info about 
how he compiles and optimizes the code etc ..  this is his talk I 
mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0QlhYlS8g)

The author's blog posts about language semantics are more useful 
than the language itself, as with other concatenative langs.

I was talking about Cat there, but the same applies to Factor.

Concatenative techniques are good to apply to stack-based VM instruction 
models. User-level stack languages are best left to device driver 
writing, not app programming.

BrianH: there're not weird; people have to think differently from 
what they know (C,Python,Lisp, Haskell,etc.), and I can see some 
benefits : shorter code, CLOS system (in Factor).

I've found Erlang's syntax really weird compared to ie Haskell.

I hope you realize that every time someone says "people have to think 
differently" that excludes the vast majority of programmers.

People *don't* have to think differently, and most *can't*. This 
also applies to REBOL, I'm afraid :(

BrianH: in this case, don't call them programmers. A programmer is 
curious, and likes to think differently by nature!

Wouldn't that be nice? There is too much work to limit "programming" 
to such rare people.

:)

Talk to professional Java or Oracle developers and then see if you 
can claim programmers are curious :(

Or the VB crowd *shudder*

They're only curious about what libs could be added to their 150MB 
machine gun.

That's why I really like Rebol/Factor philisophy.

bbl

BrianH: I'm interested in studying Rebol with the parse dialect. 
Do you know good tutorials about it ?

There are 3 links to good websites in Parse channell , from Saturday

Janko: thanks, I have to check them!

So... now Carl has compiled R3 for OSX.

That's great. When will it be available?

I haven't asked. He posted less than 30 mins ago. Probably same time 
as the Linux version.

and now it's also running on his Linux router :-)

What distro?

R3 for OSX is for Intel only ...:(

yeksoon - what? I expected R3 running on Linux or OS-X not sooner 
than maybe in one year, and you are unhappy, that PPC ancient architecture 
is not supported yet? :-)

The OSX version won't let me log in to chat. I keep getting "invalid 
command or arguments".

never mind, I forgot to type the user name. :-) it's been a long 
time since I last had to log in.

can't belive it.. R3 for os x so cool 8)

Basically the same as a year ago, but it includes RebDev now

Lots of core changes, many new mezzanines, some new bugs, some old 
(don't know which the DIR? bug is).

Janko;  It you are diving into Cheyenne RSP, make sure you give QuarterMaster 
a look see.  http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/

Chris, like Nenad, is counted among the unsung heroes of the world, 
in my humble opinion.

btiffin: thanks for letting me know, I was checking out QM a little 
and Chris has helped me few times here already... but about the frameworks.. 
I don't like to use (mvc) frameworks , in any language

I agree Brian, Chris is definately one of the REBOLers I most respect 
as well.  He has done great stuff with REBOL.

load %dev.jpg returns error load-jpeg has no value, must be defined 
by hand somevhere?

Pavel, jpeg loading is not supported yet. this will be available 
through media types, which are not yet done.

This means it is not possible to run old demos any way?

I better let BrianH respond to that one. I'm not sure how LOAD has 
changed since early R3 versions.

In early public Alpha the GOB demo has been running nicely

LOAD has gotten more compatible, but I left the reference to LOAD-JPEG 
alone. If there is no more LOAD-JPEG function that is good to know, 
since the whole reeason for that function was to give us something 
until the media loaders were done.

You're right, it's gone. The new GUI uses Draw for its elements, 
so the loss might not have been noticed. I'll check.

It's not entirely bliss yet, as there are problems with MAKE IMAGE!. 
Hence the strange blueish checkerboards in my screenshots of color 
sliders.

Are you using REBOL to make the screen shots?

No, this is internal to REBOL. RGB values are incorrect in the image 
data that is produced from MAKE IMAGE!.

it should be in curecode somewhere.