World: r3wp

rebol is dead ...  it's dead since the rebol 3 project was started 
in 2004 just after AGG was integrated to vid and just after rebservice 
and rebcode were alpha done

now you will continue to do what you have always done ... submiting 
stuff that noones cares about it just to feel the blanks of your 
existence ... this is one thing that not even carl wants to participate 
in ... so face it ... and stop you  are ridiculous can you give me 
since january 2010 one noticeable thing that is worst mentioning 
?

Why don't you do it yourself? Your fame is there for the taking

Dear shadwolf, please, notice that we have a special channel for 
frustration... it's called ~Vent. Use it. By the way, we already 
know that you "hate us soooooooooo much". And if REBOL is dead, let 
it RIP. And find a living toy elsewhere. Or at least ... use the 
~Vent if you are so addicted to be here.

I think, he's outta here, maybe for good.

How can I get a list of all R3 words that are available directly 
after the interpreter booted as input for creating a color coding 
file.

BrianH or others could say for sure. You could start with [words-of 
system/catalog] and drill down into datatypes, actions, etc. from 
there.

`words-of lib` is a good start.

Only 2 months for R3 to be in limbo for one year :-( Still no sign 
of Carl's more active involvement?

We should hold awake

I agree with Andreas: words-of lib is the best start for a syntax 
highlighter.

Is rebol a going concern or not?  I don't want to take the time to 
learn a dead language.

it's probably a good idea for you to wait a couple of years and see 
where it is at that time.

Well, we've waited four years so far from the initial announcement 
and timescale:
   http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-posts.r?post=r3wp500x332

Rebol is a 100 year language like Arc :)

Well said, Graham, even if you were trying to be funny.

REBOL is far from a dead language. REBOL 2 is being used as heavliy 
as ever, see Qtask.com, Synapse-EHR & Cheyenne-Server.org. Three 
dialects of REBOL, namely boron, RED & Topaz, have evolved from REBOL. 
Each offers something different - a fast cut-down evaluator, a native 
code compiled  language and a JavaScript compiler. They are all a 
different stages of their development.

The core of REBOL3 appears sufficiently stable for a lot of work 
being put into developing a REBOL3 GUI.

the 100 year old language means that the developer is prepared to 
take as long as it is necessary to get it right .. I think Paul Graham 
has mentioned the 100 years in relation to his development of Arc

I read that essay a long time ago. I thought he meant that he wanted 
to develop a language that would still be relevant 100 years from 
now -- not take 100 years to develop it.

Yes I think the implication is that as well ....

Languages don't die, but become irrelevant. You are free to use ALGOL 
for your projects, but there are probably other languages better 
for the task, so ALGOL is not so relevant anymore. I don't see REBOL 
becoming irrelevant any time soon.

Carl is terrible in mainataining the community. The same question 
was asked on facebook. His blogs an twitte are dead, and R3 chat? 
The system, which halted development of R3 for quite some time, is 
offline for something like a month? Didn't Carl even noticed? Well, 
of couse, as the last time he was online was in April.


R3 is in the state, where others might use it to their advantage, 
and buil-up on it. And e.g. RMA is doing so. What would be still 
welcomed by many, it is for Carl to at least share his commitment 
to the future of REBOL, because I can understand, why ppl are reluctant 
to use it.


From all the REBOL related projects, RED and maybe TOPAZ are the 
most real ones. We will see, how those projects go ...

Hmm, should replace my keyboard :-( I need to press certain letters 
several times on my notebook ....

Learning Rebol makes sense even when you don't use it because it 
just shows you the big problems and miss conceptions of other languages.

Boron and predecessors have been pretty real for half a decade, Petr; 
it's just that people are ignoring them. It's all in the mind

or in their architecture and achievement, and in author's ignorance 
to co-work with the community ....

Boron's author has made all the arrangements for the community to 
contribute. It's the community who is ignoring him

Red now has a better architecture, but that says nothing about Boron 
in the past

Kaj - who's Karl Robillard? And who's Boron author? Carl too? I don't 
remember him from ML (but maybe my memory does not work well enough), 
I don't know him from here,so if I might choose - I will always prefer 
systems from guys like Gabriele, Doc, Ladislav, or other ppl well 
known from the community past. So - the problem in communication 
might be on both sides. Besides that, of course - many of us had 
no interest in fork projects, as R3 seemed so promissing ... who 
could knew that it will end the way it is? :-)

Pardon? What does Carl have to do with Boron?

In old times, Karl was active in the REBOL community under the handle 
Wickedsmoke, publishing REBOL code on his website and SourceForge

He was also in AltME, but he's an open source guy, so for his language 
implementations he followed all the usual open source routes, much 
like Red is doing now

you see - I even don't know, who's the Boron's author ...

And you deny that REBOL people are ignoring him?

Conversely, the open source scene is ignoring REBOL, and sadly that 
includes clones, so Karl fell between a rock and a hard place

No, I deny his work with the community, that is all. Imight set-up 
REBOL conference, and invite no-one, just do some infrastructure, 
web-presentation, etc., not talk to ppl, and wonder, why noone is 
attending ... I never felt enough "marketing" is surrounding Orca 
or Boron.


And yes, open-source world is ignoring REBOL clones, maybe because 
1) they think that there is very few ppl involved anyway 2) because 
they might feel that anything REBOL related is doomed, not enough 
popular, etc. 3) because REBOL syntax and functional languages do 
not attract many, and they hardly become mainstream ... 4) because 
world is moving towards - do-everything-in-JS+HTML+CSS

Ah, so why does the open source world think nothing is going on with 
REBOL? Because we organised a conference without inviting them

It's true that Karl is not very proactive, but you have to ask yourself 
who the needy one is here. Open source has all they want, Karl has 
his own language he wanted; the REBOL community is the needy one 
without a language

I don't compare him to R3, I am comparing him to Doc, and his aproach. 
And I can see the difference (for myself, of course). And RED is 
open-source language too ... Anyway - I abandoned R3.I am waiting 
for Carl to announce R4 :-)

What other project is Carl involved in?

SFaber, I think that learning REBOL cannot hurt. For me it still 
will be very good universal tool.

Carl is involved in some secret projects, that's why it's such a 
mystery:)

I can accept that.  I've been looking at python and perl and cannot 
even choose a gui to work with.

I like python best, but there is no gui for v.3.0.

SFarber, it depends on what your goal is. If you want to have some 
plain fun with programming and create some handy tools, or go into 
discovery on how deep REBOL is, then REBOL is fine, even if R3 is 
not visibly moving right now. If you want to compare its momentum 
to, say, Python or Ruby, and look at the suite of libraries for them, 
then REBOL clearly loses out, because it is not as widespread.

Typically, there are not many libraries available as most choose 
to use REBOL very vertically in their hobby or business, including 
both of those I'm involved in.

What do you use REBOL for?

Almost anything in my pipeline: Text editing, compiling, building, 
writing docs, compiling docs, deployment, support and website.

What kind of "compiling" do you use REBOL for?