REBOL News Archive
25-March-2001: REBOL Technologies - Product Release
REBOL/Core 2.5 Released
REBOL/Core 2.5 offers IMAP and APOP protocols, improved hash and list
functions, file and network mode query and controls, asynchronous port operations, powerful sort features, crypto
and hashed checksums, new load and mold features, and more.
08-January-2001: Byte.com
REBOL,
Perl, Ruby, And Misc.
(Regarding REBOL/Command) "I found the ODBC database access worked
quite well, as did the DLL and command access. Given its CGI support, REBOL/Command could be a good language for
building a database-driven website."
--Martin Heller, Mr.
Computer Language Person
06-November-2000: Byte.com
REBOL,
Carl Sassenrath's "New" Language:
It Is Deeper Than It Appears
"REBOL/View contains all of REBOL/Core plus VID...Much more complicated
layouts are possible, including full-blown GUI applications. To see how simple the game (Minesweeper) was to implement,
go back to Sites and Demos and click on "View source first" before clicking on Minesweeper Game. Of course,
the whole demo application was built in REBOL."
--Martin Heller, Mr.
Computer Language Person
October-2000: REBOL Technologies - Press Release
REBOL Technologies Announces Free Re-distribution
of REBOL/Core
Software developers can now freely distribute their REBOL/Core applications
with REBOL/Core and can also distribute encapsulated REBOL/Core applications using the newly released REBOL/Command
Runtime application.
--REBOL Technologies
15-October-2000: Software Development Times
REBOL
takes Command
"The free REBOL programming language is going commercial, with a
new edition from REBOL Technologies Inc. that offers access to external libraries, calling shell commands, external
applications and database connectivity through ODBC."
--Alan Zeichick
October-2000: REBOL Technologies - Press Release
REBOL Technologies Releases Runtime
Version of REBOL/Command
REBOL Technologies today announced the availability of REBOL/Command
Runtime 1.0, an Internet software package that allows developers to create and deploy encapsulated REBOL applications.
--REBOL Technologies
02-October-2000: SunWorld
REBOL rolls forward
"Technically, then, REBOL is a hit: it has happy users, enough vitality
to grow according to their needs, plenty of real-life applications, an interesting syntax, and even its own magazine,
REBOL Forces. But is it sustainable?"
--Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz
September-2000: Unix Review
REBOL
and the Shell
"Making a REBOL Shell Script
To turn a REBOL script into a general shell script, place the following "interpreter" line at the top
of the script..."
--Jeff Kreis
September-2000: REBOL Technologies - Press Release
REBOL Technologies Releases REBOL/Command
REBOL Technologies today announced the availability of REBOL/Command
1.0, a commercial extension to its leading Internet application development product REBOL/Core 2.3.
--REBOL Technologies
September-2000: Linux Focus
REBOL
the rebel
"...talking about versatility and compactness, Rebol is a model.
We could say you can do just everything with Rebol. The limit doesn't come from the language but from your imagination."
--Georges Tarbouriech
June-2000: Dr. Dobb's Journal - Feature Article
Inside
the REBOL Scripting Language
"The Relative Expression-Based Object Language (REBOL) was designed
to make it easier to communicate between computers, or between people and computers, using context-dependent sublanguages.
(Additional resources include rebol.txt listings)."
--Carl Sassenrath
January-2000: Dr. Dobb's Journal - Feature Article
REBOL And E-mail
Services
"When rebuilding his web sites, Michael [Swaine] looked at a number
of scripting languages -- and settled on REBOL. He found it easier to use than many other scripting tools, and
the kinds of tasks it makes easy are those involving Internet programming..."
--Michael Swaine
19-November-1999: About.com
Street
Talk: REBOL
"One of the best aspects of REBOL is that it is supported on over
35 platforms, with support for 50 or more platforms expected by the end of the year. One of those platforms, fortunately,
is the AS/400...With the strength of REBOL’s cross-platform support, REBOL scripts will run exactly the same way
on the AS/400 as they do on any other platform, so you can start REBOL programming before the final release of
the AS/400 version..."
--Chuck Lundgren
12-November-1999: ComputerWoche (Translated from German)
REBOL is to Revolutionize the Internet
"Sassenrath predicts a great future, particularly with the application
of wireless communication equipment. REBOL already performs well in areas which Microsoft might regard as dangerous
to them. "Microsoft is continuously monitoring our site", says the REBOL chief. "Our development
threatens the Empire and also Java."
01-November-1999: Tucows
REBOL
Crowned 'Head of the Herd'
"Whether you're a seasoned JavaScript, VBScript and PERL programming
guru, or just a neophyte wanting to get their feet wet, then perhaps you should take a look at REBOL...Being a
programming tool, REBOL doesn't get rated, but if it did, it would be worth an entire herd!"
--Tucows Programmer Resources
30-October-1999: Linux World
A
REBOL Incursion
It's not a scripting language, not a programming language
-- and not a new Amiga, either. Or is it?
"Don't be fooled by people who say that Carl Sassenrath's new project
is "just a scripting language." In reality, the chief architect of the AmigaOS is after nothing less
than your cell phone, your Java-enabled toaster, and your Linux box in his quest to make your operating system
irrelevant in the new world of instant messaging."
--Nora Mikes
18-October-1999: The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, CA
Computer, Simply
Spoken:
Ukiah Man's New Language 'Visionary'
"The new REBOL version has generated interest throughout the computer
industry, drawing praise in industry journals and being cited by some reviewers as a possible major breakthrough
in programming languages."
--Mike Geniella
15-October-1999: SunWorld
Let
the REBOLlion Begin
"We see three current hardware imperatives gathering IT talent:
wireless networking, embedded computing (or appliances), and distributed (especially clustered) computing. REBOL
has stories to tell about all three of these. It's particularly interesting to see how well REBOL is positioned
to serve in networked appliances, especially wireless ones."
--Cameron Laird and Katherine Soraiz
12-October-1999: About.com
Scripting
Language for the Next Century
"REBOL introduces the concept of a messaging language, which puts
it in the same category with other natural languages like English. While scripting languages like Tcl/Tk, PERL
and Python are easier than standard programming languages like Java, REBOL beats all of them taking simplicity
as a key virtue in a complex programming environments. REBOL is probably the best tool to glue together components of your complex, distributed
AI applications...So, forget complex shell scripts or CGI programs, and make simple things simple to do."
-- Denis
Susac
12-October-1999: Cyber India Online Ltd.(CIOL)
Program
With REBOL, Naturally
"With REBOL, programming the computer is more about communicating
rather than commanding. You can write REBOL scripts in minutes, and use them across no less than 30 different platforms.
Can your favourite programming language do that?"
--Mahesh Shantaram
29-September-1999: Rediff on the Net
Carl Sassenrath,
Inventor of REBOL Language:
An Exclusive Interview
"I cannot see languages like C++, Java, or PERL taking us to the
stars. Object-oriented programming is not the answer. I can truly say this because I've been involved in object-oriented
programming since the beginning. It does not increase productivity. It does not give better results. The answer
to our problems rests in the natural characteristics of language and expression, not in objects."
--Interview by Srikant Sreenivasan
20-September-1999:
SF Gate/Chronicle,Oakland Inter-City Express,LA Daily Commerce,Woodland Daily Democrat,Chico Enterprise
Record,Lodi News Sentinel,Vacaville Reporter,Hollister Free Lance-(AP)
Silicon Valley Refugees Develop New Programming Language
"Carl Sassenrath practically owned the Silicon Valley. A brilliant
programmer whose computer codes kept systems running at Apple Computer Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., he had his
choice of hot jobs at hot companies..."
--Martha Mendoza, AP Business Writer
20-September-1999: ComputerCurrents.com
REBOL.com wins
'Link of the Week' Award
"REBOL is a new web-authoring language, considered a universal scripting
language because it can be used with more than 50 different system platforms."
18-September-1999: Rediff on the Net
Programming for
Dummies:
English-like Computer Language Dares to Unshackle Users
from Brahmanism of Programmers
"Yet another cool feature is that the REBOL code is cross-platform.
REBOL is today available on more than 30 platforms. So, Java is not the only one that allows you to write once
and run anywhere. Again, Java is not as easy to learn and code in. Another pleasant surprise is the small size
of the REBOL interpreter."
--Srikant Sreenivasan
7-September-1999: Andover.Net Tech Sighting's Site of the Day
What's the
Cause If You're Without REBOL?
"REBOL (pronounced REB-el) stands for Relative Expression-Based
Object Language. It's a programming language similar to PERL, but lighter-weight and extremely cross-platform capable.
Developers and hobbyists alike will enjoy the straightforward simplicity of this relatively new language."
--Tina Gasperson
5-September-1999: evolt.org
If You Plan to
Evolt, Join the REBOLs
"While doing some research recently, I stumbled upon something that,
as a web developer and Perl programmer, nearly flattened me, at the very least it required me to pick my jaw up
off the floor. That something was REBOL."
--WCB4
27-August-1999: WebReview
REBOL
Might Be the Language for the Rest of Us
"For those of you who have mastered Perl, Python, Javascript and
others, I tip my hat. You impress me the same way folks who can speak five languages impress me. I speak one and
a half languages and couldn't write a line of Perl if my life depended on it. But the first time I looked at a
line of REBOL code, I knew what it meant."
--Derrick Story
27-August-1999: WebReview
Why REBOL
Matters
"Does the world really need 'yet another programming language'?...It's
tough: productivity seems to come from power, and power seems to lead to complexity. But now and then we see an
example of a product or a technology or an insight that makes simplicity and productivity turn out to be two sides
of the same coin. And when greater productivity can be bought with less complexity, that's a breakthrough. It's
just possible that the REBOL model contains the seeds of such a breakthrough."
--Michael Swaine
26-August-1999: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Partners with REBOL Technologies to Publish Official REBOL Press
According to Brandon Nordin, Vice President and Group Publisher for Osborne/McGraw-Hill, "By working closely with REBOL Technologies' product development and user support
groups, REBOL Press will become the ideal resource for all levels of developers using the product. REBOL Press
will also allow Osborne to become part of the fast-emerging REBOL marketplace and the growing enthusiasm associated
with it." McGraw-Hill and its subsidiary, Standard and Poors, were early users of REBOL.
19-August-1999: Cool Tools
Beyond Cool -- It's Revolutionary!
"We think that REBOL represents a really cool opportunity to 'code
once-run anywhere,' an opportunity many of us geeks (and we use that term in the nicest possible way) have been
looking for. Go for it and get that special tingly feeling only a Cool Tool can give you."
September issue: Web Techniques magazine
Script Junkie Column: REBOL Bots
"Over the past two decades, my search for the perfect scripting
language led me to work with companies such as HP, Amiga, and Apple.In that time, I investigated more than 50 different
languages, from Ada to C, from Pascal to Lisp. I wanted a language that was very simple and readable with almost
no syntax, yet very flexible with a wide degree of expressive freedom. It needed to allow a script to run on a
great number of platforms without modification, have an extensive set of built-in data types that felt natural
to humans, and smoothly support all of the standard network protocols, such as HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, NNTP, time,
finger, whois, and more. And finally, so that I could use it everywhere, I wanted the entire package to be small
(less than 200KB) with no installation hassle -- just copy it and run. More than anything else, I wanted a language
that was friendly, usable, and highly productive....The result of this quest became the Relative Expression-Based Object Language
(REBOL, pronounced REB-el), which was released free of charge late last year. I call REBOL a messaging language,
because it's intended to be used in the same way as English: for communications, not just algorithms. It works
equally well for expressing data as well as code. This aspect is its greatest strength; it's meant to offer a better
approach to the exchange and interpretation of information among people, computers, and application software."
--Carl Sassenrath
Amazing Computing/Amiga magazine
Lesson One: Working with a Scripting/Messaging Language
(Vol. 14 #5 -Summer, 1999) Lesson Two: Adding to Your Script (Vol. 14 #8 - Fall, 1999) Lesson
Three: Completing Your Script! (Vol. 14 #9 - Fall, 1999)
--by Bohdan Lechnowsky, Technical Support/Quality Assurance, REBOL Technologies
6-August-1999: CNET
CNET Gives REBOL a 9!
"Offering small size yet real power, a minimal syntax, and productivity,
REBOL is a good addition to the crowded field of scripting languages. With a gentle learning curve and a growing
user community, REBOL has the potential to become a viable choice for Web developers."
--Steve Arrants
27-July-1999: CMP's Tech Web
Language Helps in Pushing
Web Content
"A recently released scripting language could make it easier to push
large amounts of content to multiple Web sites. The language, REBOL, was created by REBOL Technologies (Ukiah,
Calif.) and integrates code and data into network messages. REBOL's creators say it solves distributed computing
tasks better than other languages (such as Perl) because it has built-in networking protocols, including HTTP,
FTP, SMTP, POP, and NNTP."
--Lee Bruno and Mary Jander
19-July-1999: Network World
REBOL with a Context
"So what is REBOL like to program with? Well, pretty amazing, as
it offers simple constructs for doing complex things."
--Mark Gibbs
10-July-1999: ComputerEdge Online
The New REBOL Force
"Its common lexicon is independent of any particular country, and the
language is so simple even novice users can learn its fundamentals through a short 10-step introduction and become
productive within hours."
--Skip Press
8-July-1999: developer.com
REBOL:
New, Simple, Yet Powerful
"REBOL offers an environment based on simplicity, yet it is flexible
and powerful."
--Piroz Mohseni
6-July-1999: Computer Reseller News
New
Scripting Language Runs Unmodified on 30 Platforms
"[REBOL] has built-in network support for common Internet protocols,
comes in a compact size of 150 kbytes, and includes an XML parser and direct access to network news transfer protocol."
--Amber Howle
July-1999: SunWorld
REBOL
2.1 Scripting Language Practically Universal
"The intuitive REBOL is designed for developers and sysadmins who need
simple solutions for such daily networking tasks as CGI serving, e-mail processing, Internet searching, file transfer,
newsgroup, and automated Web page retrieval."
--Kane Scarlett
10-Jun-1999: Web Tools
REBOL is
Cool
"If you want to experience both the Web and Internet programming from
a different perspective, certainly give REBOL a try. You'll find out that some of the functions that take a long
time to program in other languages are very straightforward in REBOL. That alone should be a good reason to try
REBOL in your next application. "
--Piroz Mohseni
10-May-1999: ComputerWire
New REBOL Messaging Language Aimed at Net
Users
"Most languages are good at commands and expressions for executing
algorithms, but less good at dealing with data and relationships. Sassenrath came up with the concept of dialects,
a sub-language which can be tailored for a particular domain."
--John Abbott
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