Re: Begginer Programming Languages

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>Regarding all of the interest in beginner programming languages:
>What about the newer Rebol messaging language?  It seems like a powerful
>scripting language and supposedly has execution speed comparable to
>Perl.  
I took a look at this a few weeks ago, and it is NOT a good starter language,
for teaching or instruction. It might be fine for someone who has good ground-
ing and wants a shorthand, access to what looks like a large library hiding
behind a bucnh of keywords, and lots of fairly biased functionality. I'll 
with-hold further comment until I've used it to accomplish something, which
might be a while (weeks).

>...One of its main advantages is its language based expressive syntax 
>that may make it easier to use.
What does this mean?

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