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What Users Say About REBOL"I discovered REBOL this morning, have been evangelizing at my company all day, and may just devote the rest of my life to this language. It has truly had that much of an effect on me. I can't remember when I have been this excited about a technology. Thank you!"
"I have only just started dablling with this amazing language, but I already know my first-born child will be named Rebol in its honour. :-). I look forward to using REBOL on all the platforms I work with (Amiga, Windows, OS400). Keep up the incredible work.
"I can't tell you how impressed I am with REBOL -- pure networking nirvana. I am doing so many cool things! Thank you. I have seen the future... Congratulations!."
"Cool stuff! ... No crashes, everything I've tried seems to work great... Keep up the good work!"
"I've looked at REBOL, and it's great. The simplicity of power is overwhelming compared to Perl. REBOL can do lots of things."
"I *love* this language! Please keep up the excellent work!"
"I find REBOL to be refreshing and intriguing in its possibilities. Thanks for making it available."
"Just got version 2.0. It's great. I can see myself using this more and more."
"I must say that REBOL has the greatest potential to turn network communications into a non-issue of any language that I've seen yet. You've taken the best aspects of Forth, Python, Lisp and added an excellent data model with networking primitives. Way to go!"
"I was in the process of learning Perl until I found REBOL. What an improvement over Perl. With your sample scripts as a guide it shouldn't take long to get a working knowledge of the language. Yes, it would be fun to blow the time to learn Java, JavaScript, Perl, etc., but when you're doing this sort of thing for a living,...a scripting language such as REBOL is perfect for those who don't have a lot of time. I have no doubt that you can use REBOL to write highly complex code to do most anything, but the nice part is you can also write some simple code to accomplish a simple task." --Earl Parker II of Parker Carburetion "The last time I tried to get mod-perl to compile under NT it took me a week of failure to give up. That is when I tried REBOL...I have never seen a company like REBOL put their binary distributions, so to speak, where their mouth is....REBOL and REBOL [Technologies] are my saviors. Thank you." --Richard McKinley of Rand Technology, Inc. "I do not know of a tool I can purchase, especially for a Windows-based machine, that will give me the power to test TCP/IP protocols like REBOL does. Just wanted to say that REBOL helped me a lot today as I tested and demo (another demo tomorrow) our wireless local loop with email, http, ftp and more. I am ready to throw Perl to the swine. [And] the automatic documentation facility provided by reboldoc.r and the introspection of REBOL (where examples are run generating the documentation) is one of the coolest parts of REBOL. Many of the traditional steps of software (and e-authoring in general) through documentation are eliminated. Maybe the possibility of paperless media being enabled on computers has now begun. The main hurdle now will be for media authors to 'get it'. (And adopt it). Bravo!"
"The combination of the new parse function together with the new built-in CGI support really flies. I was able to convert the long string returned from an HTTP server into a simple REBOL list, which, with two lines of code, selected and validated the credit card data. With just a few more lines, I automatically generated either a personalized thank you message, or one informing the customer of the credit card entry error. Now that's a productivity boost!"
"Great job! I am really impressed as to the fact that the first time I took a look at some of the code I could easily understand what was going on. Another thing [is] this idea of aliasing [dialecting]. Who would've thought of it. I think I am going to spend some time with this."
"As a economist involved in online business development, I've been looking for a genuinely multi-platform scripting language that is powerful enough to do what I need it to do, but doesn't require my going back to school to learn how to use it. REBOL gets the job done. What snagged my attention was the email 'send' command: send me@mydomain.com "message". For e-commerce CGIs that notify me via email, this is a dream. REBOL is to Python what Python is to Java as far as portability, ease-of-use, and learning curve are concerned."
"I work in the Australian IT industry as a systems administrator at the Southern Hemispheres only Internet Data-Center. First, let me say that REBOL is an excellent product, in fact it redefines excellence. I haven't even spent two hours total with REBOL yet, and I am already blinded by its power. I plan to become fluent in the programming of the language, and introduce it into my workplace."
"Sure, I know 'it's another scripting language' - but consider that it has support for currency built into it. I don't really see that any where in Perl. Oh yeah, and date arithmetic too. It's really nothing like C or C++, so I'd suggest that all the nay-sayers who've been saying that it is, take a look at it for real. Considering that it's a 150Kb download it really shouldn't take that long... Oh yeah there's another difference from most 'modern' scripting environments, it's small. Yeah - you get all that good stuff in a very tiny package. So, far, after extensive experience with NNTP and HTTP via Perl, I would have to say that REBOL is much much simpler to use, and leverage for a person who just wants to get stuff done."
"I looked over REBOL during it's inception, as I was working on an Object Oriented compiler and simulator known as 'e' and specman. I thought at the time, that you need a little more time to mature the product. Version 2.0 seems to have really moved towards a ready to use, kick-butt kind of software."
"Thanks to great people at REBOL Technologies for bringing us REBOL, the messaging language."
"Great work! The new REBOL release is a tour-de-force. "
"Thanks for 2.0....I've just a word: <<It's REBOLutionary!>>"
"REBOL is amazing. Thanks for developing such a great tool."
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