[REBOL] Re: Opening a new blog about Rebol?
From: ale870::gmail::com at: 10-Nov-2007 15:52
Yes Henrik, I agree with you.
Some popular languages have A LOT OF sites dedicated, but everyday many
others are created.
I think the only problem regarding Rebol popularity is:
1) it is not open source
2) Rebol Technologis (the company) does not make enough publicity, and does
not support the people that try to spread the Rebol-word.
I asked to a friend of mine to try to use (learn) rebol. She told me (she is
a very good programmer) that she does not want to use rebol because...
1) on server-side there are MANY programming languages, and they are all
free (and open source), like PHP, Pyhton, Perl, Java, ASP, c#, visual
basic#, ruby, etc... So... why paying to use Rebol (since in server side,
for example, DB is a must, and one cannot use DB (odbc, oracle, etc,...) if
one does not buy command version.
2) client side: it could be great, but GUI is not yet at highest level (it
is not the "best of breed").
I think rebol really needs a lot publicity since it is really a great
language, but I think Rebol Technologies should have to "help" the people
(aka "promote rebol") to use it, with a license that best fits the current
market, considerring that their competitors are Python, PHP, M$, Ruby, Java
& JavaFX, etc...
However, I already saw your blog in the past weeks, and it seems very
interesting. Now that I know who are you, I will put a link in my italian
blog to your blog.
If we link to eachother, we
can also help eachother. I would be happy to do that.
Great! I'm always available to any kind of collaboration!
On Nov 10, 2007 12:49 PM, Henrik Mikael Kristensen <henrik-webz.dk> wrote:
>
> On 07/11/2007, at 17.42, Alessandro Manotti wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need a suggestion / opinion by you.
> > Currently I have a blog (in italian language) to publish some Rebol
> > news,
> > but more focused on tutorials, tips & tricks, How-to, etc...
> > I think it is interesting. For example I'm using our discusssion to
> > extract
> > useful information and publish them in the blog, like the trick
> > about code
> > optimization. In this way all italian people can gain more
> > knowledge about
> > this beautiful language. It is not very "famous" in Italy :-(
> >
> > I wanted to open a similar blog in english language, by simply
> > translating
> > my articles from italian to english. But since there are several
> > other blogs
> > in english, I don't know if it could be a good idea or not.
> > I wish your opinion.
> >
> > More: do you think that a blog in english language containing
> > tutorial is
> > ok, or for rebol could be better using other tools (wikipedia, true
> > internet
> > site, forum, etc...).
> >
> > I haven't much time, but in order to fill articles in my italian
> > blog (
> > http://sguish.wordpress.com) I publish solutions, hints, etc...
> > that I find
> > in my real life, or solutions to some problems that other poeple ask.
> > So I use it like a block note, to put solutions found to some specific
> > problems (and sometimes I create full tutorials).
> >
> > Can I have your opinion? Do you think another site could be useful
> > or not
> > for Rebol?
>
> I think it's a great idea. I have a REBOL blog myself at http://
> www.hmkdesign.dk/rebol/ but would like to see more "life" in the blog
> area. A blog shows personal interest in the language and I started
> mine to inform more people about the language and to give tricks and
> tips on things that took me a long time to figure out. I don't think
> there can be too many REBOL blogs. :-) If we link to eachother, we
> can also help eachother. I would be happy to do that.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Henrik Mikael Kristensen
>
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