OpenEuphoria

Re: REBOL-lion

• Posted by J E M <budmeister1 at JUNO.COM> Aug 19, 1999
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>Has anyone played with the REBOL language recently? Can anyone do the
>following in Euphoria (without 'include'ing anything)?

Funny you should mention that, I just picked up learning it again after a
few
months. The program you wanted to translate to Euphoria looks simple, but
underneath it's very complex (the language hides the complexity from
you).

REBOL is an "Internet messaging language". It has built-in support for
TCP/IP networking, plus most major application layer protocols, like
HTTP,
NNTP, SMTP, POP, FTP, etc.  It also has support for parsing MIME messages
and HTML documents, since they go along with the protocols :)

Unfortunately, Euphoria doesn't currently support those protocols without
alot of wrapped up Win32 DLLs. It's amazing how much actually happens
when
you do 'save %eu.html read http://www.rapideuphoria.com/' :)  One of the
things I love about Euphoria is the ability to handle alot of low-level
things like disk i/o and memory allocation. REBOL was designed to shield
these kinds of things from the programmer, so they can write their
(Internet)
application as quickly and simply as possible.

A trap some people get into is trying to use one language for everything.
Like
someone else said, if you could do everything with one language, there
would
only _be_one_language_. So, being the lazy programmer I am, I would just
stick
with the REBOL code :)


----->Buddy
budmeister1 at juno.com