Our old Amiga friend, Carl Sassenrath, has decided to make REBOL open sourced project. Perhaps we can try it on MorphOS some day...

http://www.rebol.com/article/0511.html

I think it is smart idea. It seems that Carl is out of time (and perhaps energy) to push REBOL any further and it is indeed very difficult to get attention for this project. Even such small system like MorphOS already has support for number of scripting languages.

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"My role will be to advise and guide such decisions to keep REBOL consistent with its principles"


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Although it seems like since the last time I had a look at it (like a decade ago), Rebol has evolved from being "just" the common scripting language you use locally on your computer into some client/server combo:

rebol-net.jpg

Who knows, maybe someone will port it to MorphOS? Would be cool.

I am a bit more excited about MUI for LUA though, I think that will be more useful, especially with LUA's ARexx module.

> since the last time I had a look at it (like a decade ago), Rebol has evolved from
> being "just" the common scripting language you use locally on your computer
> into some client/server combo

Rebol started being advertised as "Internet Communications Language" and "The Internet Messaging Language" at least 13 years ago. That was when implementations of client/server technology for various Internet protocols was already included in Rebol.
And even half a year before: "REBOL was designed for communications from the start, and integrates the major Internet protocols seamlessly into the language. For beginners, Email, FTP, and Web communications can be handled directly without knowledge of networking technology or software structure. However, advanced users can connect directly to Internet sockets and invent their own network protocols."
Taking into account that Rebol was first released in 1997, I'm inclined to think that it was at no point in time ""just" the common scripting language you use locally on your computer".

Time flies...

Am I the only one who remembers REBOL before it was REBOL? Remember Hot Lava?