Maybe slightly OT: REBOL help...

[Nightcrawler]

I've been playing with REBOL for a few days now, and I found it interesting enough to buy a few books that should be arriving shortly, and I've made a few small e-mail scripts. As I don't really learn well from books alone (attention span like your average parsnip), and as I don't know anyone who uses it, I was wondering if there are any kinds of user groups/interest groups/anything that I could contact?

Anyone here that use it?

If this should have been posted in another forum I apologise...

[Targhan]

Firstly, considering that REBOL actually runs under AmigaOS/68k, this is as good a place as any to discuss REBOL issues.  You are by no means out of line.  I have long been a supporter of REBOL on Amiga.org.  Secondly, the creator of REBOL is also the person who conceptualized and wrote the AmigaOS in the first place, so that makes it more Amiga related than even DE.  It is a very simple statement to make, since the same creative mind is behind REBOL as was with the Amiga.  That's the bottom line, because Targhan said so!

There are several user groups, online communities, and portals for REBOL related things.  Just pop up a google search for REBOL Forces (that's a french group that produces an ezine for rebol users), look at www.rebol.org, which even has contributions by your's truly, and click on the language link of rebol.com.  There is a wealth of information on www.rebol.com, but you have to dig for it.

There is also several mailing lists, one of the oldies is rebol-beginners.  It may be a yahoo-groups mailing list now.  Just search on google for rebol + beginner.

Finally, I may be able to help on some of the simple tasks and concepts.  I've written several rebol applications, including a webpage generator.

I wish you good luck on your REBOLling!

[Nightcrawler]

Hi Targhan.

Thanks a lot for the info. I think rebol has a lot of Amiga'ish qualities to it, and that is probably why I like it so much  ;-)

[JoannaK]

Targhan: + couple points..

REBOL/View is free for normal use.. for distributing rebol programs commecially there's need for some licensing (compiler etc).

REBOL deliveres a lot what some others promised. Same code been able unmodified to run on 30 (or so?) different systems with GUI features (7 different CPUs, and 11 OS:es) .  And a lot more, if one does not need GUI moduels and uses it for scripts, Cgi etc...   see
http://www.rebol.com/download.html

It's a bit strange for programming language but it has really good wordset for network connectivity.  So some people love it some hate. It's matter of how well one gets into it. Good thing is, it's free DL so it's not too expesive to give it a run.

[Targhan]

You're welcome.  If enough intrest exists, we can have a rebol forum.  For a while, I tinkered with a rebol based blogging system over at MorphZone.  Unfortunately, the blogger didn't have enough documentation.

Anyway, here's a simple hello world in rebol:

[REBOL]
print "hello world"

8-)

[Cyberus]

Ok guys, inform me

REBOL is a programming language right?
And it stands for.........Oriented Language, right?

Apologies for my ignorance  ;-)

[Nightcrawler]

Cyberus:

It's really a bit over my head yet, but check out Rebol's website.

As far as I can understand, It's a scripting language but there's a lot more to it. Did that make sense? Just go to the website...

[Dan]

by Targhan on 2003/8/10 5:13:51
Anyway, here's a simple hello world in rebol:

[REBOL]
print "hello world"
8-)

 :-D That is the shortest Hello World I have ever seen!

[DaveC]

R-elative
E-xpression
B-ased
O-bject
L-anguage

:-D

[amigau]

any language that encourages 'convergence' the way REBOL does, needs to absolutely be encouraged. Try out our REBOL page:

http://www.amigau.com/c-programming/rebol/rebollinks.htm

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[DaveC]

Thanks for the awesome link!

Hey, doesn't AmigaU run on that ARexx server?

[amigau]

yep, an A2000/060/50 (tekmagic card) with 64mb RAM.  Of which only about 2mb or less are ever in use.....classic Amiga efficiency.

If I ever get motivated enough or locate the code (I'm sure there's already some avail. on the REBOL site) I was going to try a REBOL-Amiga webserver someday....

kevin

[Nightcrawler]

Rebol just gets more fascinating the more I get to know it... And frustrating at times I haven't got my books yet, so maybe someone here can help me with a problem I have?

I run an AltME safeworld, and I need a way to send E-mail to all my users automatically at a set time (without AltME running). The timing bit is working, and I've been able to fetch e-mail addresses from AltME's user.set file by telling it to get the fifth word in the block and looping it. I don't think this is a very efficient way of doing it though, and I'm trying to figure out a way to use the "email!" datatype to get the addresses. Any ideas, anyone? :-?