Interview with Olivier ....
[1/4] from: petr::krenzelok::trz::cz at: 10-Apr-2003 13:28
Hi,
there is interview with Olivier Auverlot ... french guys stay pretty
silent about their happenings, don't they? :-)
http://www.rebolfrance.org/articles/auverlot/interview-olivier.html
sadly the interview is in french only ....
cheers,
-pekr-
[2/4] from: antonr:iinet:au at: 11-Apr-2003 3:50
> Hi,
> there is interview with Olivier Auverlot ... french guys stay pretty
<<quoted lines omitted: 3>>
> cheers,
> -pekr-
I will attempt to translate the first paragraph:
Interview of Olivier Auverlot by the rebolers
Author of the book "Programmation Rebol" and RebolFrance webmaster,
Olivier responds to all No's questions (No' = Bruno Bord).
1) When did you first hear of rebol ?
If I remember correctly, it was in 1997. I stumbled on a news item in
the magazine Login which described Carl Sassenrath's project to
conceive a new programming language concurrent with Java. I was at that
time occupied with understanding how the marketing of Sun had succeeded
in convincing me that Java was a revolution. Deceived by this language,
I downloaded version 1.0 of rebol and I installed it on my 486DX4/100
in Linux. It was slow and totally different from all that I knew but it
was already evident that the potential was incredible. I then wrote my
first script and tested it on the Windows evaluation version. As in a
miracle, everything functioned the first time to perfection and without
modification. Fallen under the charm, I stacked my old Java books in a
case and I believe they are still there...
Maybe paragraph two tomorrow?
Anton.
[3/4] from: gchiu:compkarori at: 11-Apr-2003 16:12
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:28:04 +0200
Petr Krenzelok <[petr--krenzelok--trz--cz]> wrote:
>http://www.rebolfrance.org/articles/auverlot/interview-olivier.html
>
>sadly the interview is in french only ....
English here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.rebolfrance.org/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Drebolfrance%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8
--
Graham Chiu
Rebol Encyclopaedia Taskmaster
http://www.compkarori.com/cgi-local/vanilla.r
[4/4] from: antonr:iinet:au at: 11-Apr-2003 16:07
> > http://www.rebolfrance.org/articles/auverlot/interview-olivier.html
My translation of Paragraph two:
What drew you to this language?
The first seductive aspect of rebol is the independance of scripts
with regard to the platform of execution. Rebol is the only
programming language which offers such a new abstraction for the
programmer. It happens daily that I run the same scripts under
Windows, Linux and MacOS X. When I develop in Rebol, I do not have
to think of or take into account the operating system used.
Rebol is equally unbelievably gifted in the domain of data manipulation.
I love the dynamic aspects of the language like the contextual
evaluation which allows for example the auto-generation of rebol
code at script execution time.
Its architectural model based on a meta-language, its capacities in
the domain of network programming, its innovating aspects such as
dialects and especially its functional richness, make it a cutting-edge,
innovative development solution.
Thanks Graham for the google translation link, it was useful.
Anton.
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