Of all weeks not to check my email! I, too, like the umbrella concept for OSCAR. Also, glad to know that the new language is called PRIMO. I can do a global...
Harold Grovesteen
athena@...
Apr 1, 2001 4:52 pm
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Note this discussion of "modules" from the "other" list. See the mentions of "technical problems." This is what I mean by the need for these things to be...
Harold Grovesteen
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Apr 1, 2001 5:31 pm
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Hi Harold, Mark! I haveŽnt said anything about the Oscar name change because I was confused, I was also wary to say anythimg because issues like this crop up...
sharriff.aina@...
Apr 2, 2001 6:23 am
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The other concern of mine is perhaps ego based, but I do not want to create the impression that the OSCAR project is simply a REBOL Technologies want-a-bee....
Harold Grovesteen
athena@...
Apr 3, 2001 3:35 am
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Hello everybody, Iam currently on holiday in Bridge of Orchy on the West Highland Way in Scotland, very beautiful scenery & very quiet, lots of time to read &...
Robbo1Mark@...
Apr 4, 2001 4:16 pm
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Hi all. Just an update on how my little Pybol project is going ... I've removed the two existing files in the Pybol folder. They will be replaced with the...
andy.elvey@...
Apr 8, 2001 12:46 am
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Let me give everyone (almost typed "you'all"--I live in Texas) some of my background which may help you to understand my concerns. For four years I was a...
Harold Grovesteen
athena@...
Apr 8, 2001 5:12 pm
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Hi Harold - good to hear from you again! This is a very well thought- out piece, and you make some very good points.... :-) . The time you've spent on the...
andy.elvey@...
Apr 9, 2001 9:00 am
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Harold / Everybody / Y'all ( For Texans! ) Excellent post Harold!, I've just this minute returned from my holiday and pleased to see OSCAR life continues...
Robbo1Mark@...
Apr 9, 2001 6:06 pm
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I am glad some read my thoughts. I am anxious to get focused! Looking forward to your posts Mark! Harold...
Harold Grovesteen
athena@...
Apr 10, 2001 2:01 am
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If the OSCAR project was a business, the question we should be asking ourselves is "Why would a customer use PRIMO instead of the competition's product?" This...
Harold Grovesteen
athena@...
Apr 10, 2001 12:37 pm
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Harold / Everybody ( Y'all ) Harold made some excellent & pertinent points in his recent posts, namely what should we focus on and why should people use OSCAR...
Robbo1Mark@...
Apr 10, 2001 8:20 pm
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Mark, THANKS FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT!! Welcome back from your holiday. You are very correct when you say we are in the understanding stage. My fundamental...
Harold Grovesteen
athena@...
Apr 11, 2001 3:29 am
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Good on you , Harold! Keep up the good work! I'm very much in agreement with Mark and his comments about Rebol and why he's here. There is simply *nothing*...
andy.elvey@...
Apr 11, 2001 8:30 am
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Dear Group members, ... In order to understand something like REBOL, what is the very first step to start understanding the language? The foremost answer, I...
gmassar@...
Apr 11, 2001 11:24 pm
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Good choice Geo, I took a look at it and it has several pros 1. Its written in C 2 Extensibility 3. Can be used as a LANGUAGE FRAMEWORK :-)) 4 Most especially...
sharriff.aina@...
Apr 12, 2001 5:36 am
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Mmm - yes, I'd seen Lua as well , and been intrigued by it :-) You may also want to check out the latest version of Python (v2.1) which is in second beta...
andy.elvey@...
Apr 12, 2001 8:37 am
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IŽll DEFINATELY check it out :-)) I deviated a few moths ago from REBOL to Python due to the lack of database support. regards Sharriff Aina andy.elvey@parad ...
sharriff.aina@...
Apr 12, 2001 10:48 am
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Sharriff, ... I think someone already did it with Delphi. I'll check further if there is one. Thanks, Geo......
Geo Massar
gmassar@...
Apr 12, 2001 3:22 pm
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Andy, ... Perhaps we can compare those language specs in order to make a new one esp. for PRISMO, the OSCAR project. I need more time studying Lua in order to...
Geo Massar
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Apr 12, 2001 3:34 pm
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Ok, Geoff - thanks for these comments ! .. :-) I'm in "serious learning mode / understanding mode" at the moment too (in particular, stepping back and mulling...
andy.elvey@...
Apr 13, 2001 12:06 am
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GEO / ANDY / EVERYBODY PYTHON is a great langauge and whilst I've not looked at LUA yet, I certainly will, I'm always looking at other languages to see what I...
Robbo1Mark@...
Apr 13, 2001 4:27 pm
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Mark, Great post (which I decided not to quote). I recommend looking at Postscript for some additional ideas, not necessarily implementations. It is...
Garold L. Johnson
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Apr 13, 2001 5:18 pm
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Mark, I enjoyed your post! I too had the immediate feeling of FORTH's influence on REBOL. What I want to add is that there is one situation in FORTH where...
Harold Grovesteen
athena@...
Apr 14, 2001 3:42 pm
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Harold, excellent post you made too! lots of good flesh on the bones from me to chew over in my continuing considerations of REBOL internals. I'm glad that my...
Robbo1Mark@...
Apr 14, 2001 5:46 pm
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Numeric Words & Strange Contexts Whilst doing some thinking & research about parsing "legal" REBOL values, I managed to discover something interesting about...
Robbo1Mark@...
Apr 16, 2001 4:13 pm
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It has been a while. Don't worry about this, I've made some progress on the alpha version and it behaves exactly as described below. The context and word...
Daan Oosterveld
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Apr 16, 2001 10:19 pm
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Extemely deep and ineteresting post Mark! I will definately take a look at Forth and Smalltalk when IŽm chanced. Ireally wonder why Java could succed over...
sharriff.aina@...
Apr 17, 2001 6:04 am
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Hi Daan (and everyone else!). Keep up the good work, Daan - what you've been doing sounds really good ! :-) About whether Primo follows Rebol's syntax...
andy.elvey@...
Apr 17, 2001 8:17 am
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ANDY, I remember seeing a video interview with Carl Sassenrath on the net at ZDnet.com IIRC, however Carl said here that when designing REBOL he looked at over...
