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GedB
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« on: February 12, 2004, 08:47:32 AM »

I'm using Rebol to create a dialect for content management on my new web site.

It's a hard slog, but it is all coming together, and I have lots of moments when I suddenly realise why Rebol does something the way it does.

It is a nice feeling.

I could have done something quicker in PHP, sure, but at the end I would have this big pile of code to maintain.

With Rebol I find functionality increasing quickly while the code size grows very slowly.

It may all be worth it after all   :rolleyes:  
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« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2004, 02:52:33 PM »

It gets easier. It took me a while for things to click too, but "the REBOL way" is much more natural for me now.
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« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2004, 04:23:51 PM »

You may still end up with a big pile of code (over at REBOL.org there are 120 scripts to run the site).

But they are all small, and pretty simple to understand in isolation (or so I claim!).

Watch this thread grow over at Webmaster world: Top 100 signs that I am writing spaghetti code in PHP

....Not that you can't write spaghetti code in REBOL that is incomprehensible to others, it's just you need a different set of signs Smiley

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« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2004, 08:32:49 AM »

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....Not that you can't write spaghetti code in REBOL that is incomprehensible to others, it's just you need a different set of signs

I think the main difference is that REBOL allows for a much higher level of abstraction.
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