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PeterWood
31-Dec-2011
[4214x2]
truet -> true
On the other hand, even if the syntax changed and default was a keyword, 
the old REBOLers could still write

case [ a  = 1 [b: 1] true [b: 0]]

and belt-and-braces types could write

case [ a  = 1 [b: 1] true [b: 0] default [b: 0]]  ;-)
Gabriele
31-Dec-2011
[4216x2]
Topaz SWITCH changed since then.
You have SWITCH and SWITCH-DEFAULT now.
Dockimbel
31-Dec-2011
[4218]
Other strings in the future: for Red/System, possible but very low 
priority for now. Red will have a R3-like string! datatype with Unicode 
support.
Dockimbel
1-Jan-2012
[4219x2]
Red/Systerm ARM port on OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/25468/Red_System_Language_Gets_OS_X_ARM_Android_Backends
Kaj did it again. :-) Thanks a lot! I hope that the article comments 
won't be too harsh. :-)
Kaj
1-Jan-2012
[4221]
It has little to do with Syllable this time, but I'm sure our Syllable 
house troll will still manage to make an appearance. Sorry for that
BasL
2-Jan-2012
[4222]
No comments until now, only one 'like' ...
Kaj
2-Jan-2012
[4223x2]
That's typical when people don't know what to think about it - which 
is typically the case with REBOL and Syllable topics :-)
There are seven retweets, though, and the page view counter on the 
Red site has suddenly broken down, but last night shortly after publication 
it had already gone up by two thousand
Henrik
2-Jan-2012
[4225]
The "Like" was me.
Kaj
2-Jan-2012
[4226x4]
Cool, thanks :-)
The counter works again, and there are about 4000 extra views so 
far
Note that there are many links in the article, so not even all readers 
will click to the Red site
Oh, there are eight retweets, some by people with many followers
Dockimbel
2-Jan-2012
[4230]
So far 2500 page views today, 1300 yesterday.
Jerry
2-Jan-2012
[4231]
When Red 1.0 is out, I promise 10k page-views from China. :-)
Kaj
2-Jan-2012
[4232x2]
Why not now? :-)
Basics of sales: you have to present three times before you make 
a sale
Dockimbel
2-Jan-2012
[4234x3]
Current counter: 3500 page views today.
Around 450 are coming from my last news on freecode (ex-freshmeat): 
http://freecode.com/projects/red-language.
Forgot that my news was from 26 december, so all current traffic 
is from OSNews.
Kaj
2-Jan-2012
[4237]
Mac isn't tagged as an OS on Freecode
Dockimbel
2-Jan-2012
[4238]
Thanks for noticing, I've added it (should be online by tomorrow).
Kaj
2-Jan-2012
[4239x5]
I did research on the atexit() issue. The situation is horribly convoluted
I made an implementation for Syllable Desktop based on __cxa_atexit. 
You could try that on ARM Debian
However, x86 GNU/Linux does have atexit. Also, the cURL binding imports 
atexit through the C library binding, so if cURL programs load but 
GTK programs don't, that's sinister
What I found for sure is that the Android Bionic C library has an 
atexit implementation
Another thing is that when I actually try atexit, it works but ends 
with a crash
Dockimbel
3-Jan-2012
[4244]
Donation page opened: http://www.red-lang.org/p/donations.html
Kaj
3-Jan-2012
[4245x2]
http://fantom.org
http://chapel.cray.com
Janko
4-Jan-2012
[4247x2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4II94h6-IFY-- TWiT about ZMQ.


At 13:42 he starts talking about funding / open source / community 
/ financial model -- the often asked question about open soruce + 
making a living in Rebol / Red / Topaz / World ... "Open source is 
a very agressive competetive strategy, a little team can attack a 
big market"
oops .. sorry, because of 2 links from Kaj I thought this is the 
links channel
Kaj
4-Jan-2012
[4249]
Yeah, Pieter is in Texas these days
Kaj
5-Jan-2012
[4250]
http://www.osnews.com/story/25481/Developers_Must_Unite_For_Mobile_App_Portability
Dockimbel
5-Jan-2012
[4251]
For russian readers, article about Red: http://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/7209300


72 comments... I don't know if it's globally positive or not, I guess 
that skepticism would dominate, which is understandable. As Kaj said, 
you need to present three times before making a sale. ;-)
Pekr
5-Jan-2012
[4252x2]
It would be probably best to stop reporting RED is related to REBOL, 
and introduce its paradigms as a new rocket science :-)
ditto for Syllable. But I am not sure OSNews.com would publish language 
alpha state news, if not OS related. I tried to report on R3 alpha 
and some milestones, and it was refused ...
Kaj
5-Jan-2012
[4254x3]
I'm slowly disconnecting them. The current article wasn't about Syllable 
anymore, but Red has a track record on OSNews now :-)
I don't know if they would report on it without any connection, though. 
There are simply too many languages. It must be notable somehow
I hardly mentioned REBOL anymore, either, but it's necessary to introduce 
Red
Gerard
5-Jan-2012
[4257]
Finally I will be able to help a bit with a donation ... it's done! 
Will do better next time - New year was rough in terms of personal 
expenses - Keep up the good work everybody. For tring things a bit 
I recently ordered a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 inches android tablet 
- I will receive it shortly and will try to test somewthing with 
it ... Don't know what for now but looking for something. For now 
I'm learning iOS programming in the mean time using Objective-C which 
I also have to learn ... A lot of new stuff going on.
Kaj
5-Jan-2012
[4258x2]
Maniacs make the system. Square parenthesis instead of curly they 
are clearly not attract many new people.
That's the gist of the Russian comments
Chris
5-Jan-2012
[4260]
*Sigh*
Kaj
5-Jan-2012
[4261]
Yeah...
Izkata
5-Jan-2012
[4262]
Comment back that the same could be said of Python's no-bracket syntax 
 ;)
Kaj
5-Jan-2012
[4263]
I've had the same argument with someone for several years now, only 
about round parentheses...