Thursday, June 5, 2008
REBOL pramming language
I do not remember exactly when I found out about the REBOL programming language it may have been more than a year ago. One of the things that surprised me when I found REBOL is the download size. The 1MB or less download size is super small compared to the other programming languages I have tried. The watcom c/c++ compiler is 60MB, java is 60MB plus 40MB for netbeans, perl, php, python, and squeak are all about a 15 MB download, VB.net is I think hundreds of MB, ruby about 20MB, HLA 1 to 2 MB. I didn't know then and I don't know now how they make it such a small download, but it is one of the things that makes REBOL seem so awesome. I wish all programming languages were a 1 MB or less download like REBOL. REBOL
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Yea, Rebol does pack a powerful punch for its size. But I think it`s lost a bit of ground with too much emphasis being placed on size rather than usability. I would have rather had 2MB with ssl than 1MB without in the standard version. But with Rebol3 in the pipeline everything is looking a bit exciting
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