Rebol for MorphOS

[MarkTime]

@bloodline,

well I get your point...

rebol is just a scripting language that works on a lot of platforms, and it doesn't necessarily do anything that another language doesn't do.

But, it is a fun interesting language.

As for selling it, well it only needs to be useful and it will begin to sell.

For example, if you had an OS that integrated it, and rebol was the engine behind 'folder actions', i.e. you drop a file in a folder and something happens automatically, whether that be archiving, e-mailing, scrubbing and forwarding...

then you could say glibly, here is what Rebol is, its the engine that makes folder actions work.

Of course, that is not a technical explanation, and is hardly meaningful to most of us, but that would be 'marketing'...unfortunately marketing isn't just talking a good game when you try to sell the vacuum cleaner at the door...its about a lot of things, but oh well...

it sounds like this most definately will not be integrated into MorphOS, and therefore will not provide any unique value to MorphOS, an OS sorely in need of some kind of unique value.

I just have to point out, anyone can get rebol already, and they don't have any need to purchase a pegasos for Rebol.

This is a nonevent, as its stated now.

[MarkTime]

You know Wayne, I almost thought about editing my reply to not say it was a 'non-event'...but then I got busy, and never got back to changing it.

Anyway, I use language fairly precisely, which is why I thought about changing it, but also why it wasn't very imprecise in the first place.

An event is an actual occurance...the event will come when this dream is a reality.  I suppose you could say a 'consideration of pegasos' is an event in itself....but I called it a nonevent, on the first pass.  It's like whatever Carl ate for breakfast, is a nonevent to me, what he considered over the weekend, is a nonevent to me...

It is good that Carl and RJ 'considered' something...good, cool.

I got Rebol when it was first released, and have kept up with it ever since.

But I know the difference between something thats good for me, and something thats good for Genesi.

For example Rebol running as a cross OS solution, for FreeBSD, Linux, and MorphOS, is great for someone who needs a cross OS solution, a hardware vendor like Genesi, as an example.

it is however meaningless to someone like me who is only considering MorphOS as being Amiga-like,a nd Linux and FreeBSD as being other operating systems outside this community, and my interest.

more argument for nonevent.

But its not totally meaningless or really a complete nonevent, in any case, because even just a PPC version of Rebol for MorphOS is something, not nothing at all.

I was being too dramatic about it....