REBOL Oneliners
rebol.com
rebol.com
It was by far the most enjoyable programming I ever did. But (why does there always have to be that But) using it at work, as I did after school, was a disservice to everyone around me. Hardware - was all 64bit Rebol was still 32bit. Proprietary - brilliant author was from the time before, when that made sense. Co-workers - most neither could, nor wanted to "get it" Rebol sure was not going to help on their resumes.
It tried to go Rebol2->Rebol3 ala perl/python but when a community in the hundreds splinters, there is just not that much left.
However, Rebol 3 (and it's active descendant Ren-C) bootstraps itself; it does not require Rebol 2.
(And edit to say, I think some of the core team got pretty far into the blockchain rabbit hole at some point, so that may have derailed more mainstream efforts)
Regardless of the blockchain involvement, I encourage everyone to stay open-minded and judge the project on its technical merits.
https://www.reddit.com/r/redlang/comments/dzobh0/latest_gtk_...
I wish REBOL 2 was still being developed and its GUI was updated to latest trends. I'd switch back to it in a heartbeat. I'm quite excited about Red and been playing with it occasionally.
foreach file load %./ [if not dir? file [write/binary join ftp://user:pass@example.com/ file read/binary file]]
Quick example showing it:
>> something: [print val]
== [print val]
>> foreach val [1 2 3] something
1
2
3
>> append something [+ 3]
== [print val + 3]
>> foreach val [1 2 3] something
4
5
6
>> X: [print 1 + 2]
== [print 1 + 2]
>> do X
3
>> X/3
== +
>> X/3: to-word {*}
== *
>> X
== [print 1 * 2]
>> do X
2https://github.com/red/red/wiki/%5BDOC%5D-How-Red-works:-a-b...
The Intel binary is 32-bit only. Catalina will only run 64-bit binaries.
$ file rebol
rebol: Mach-O executable i386I lost access to so much cherished stuff that I am currently evaluating a switch to Ubuntu 20.04
Must have just gotten lucky, but literally nothing stopped working when I migrated to a new Catalina machine. Ok I had to do some jimmying to get Keybase back, but that wasn't a 32/64-bit issue, that was weird kext permissions stuff.
Pretty much 90% of my Steam games that had Mac versions, suddenly did not work. And there was no warning, because most of them weren't currently installed (so the catalina installer didn't warn); I just got a cross through them after upgrading.
"Mac gaming" wasn't something I did that much anymore, but I had a lot of attachment to certain games (some which of course "I totally intended to replay one day") and suddenly they became unavailable.
Many older apps I still ran now and then, stopped working.
I kept my S.O. on Mojave so that I wouldn't be forced to upgrade her Office suite to the subscription model Microsoft is pushing.
Etc.
I understand the frustration, though. Apple's spent the last 5 years or so dropping features I care about and breaking things important to me, across my iPhone, iPad, and MBP.
The intel version is i386. 32bit, which is not supported on Catalina either/
I'd rather go through 5 lines of simple statements than try to decipher a "clever" one liner.
From the fine article : > Open a GUI, read web page, sent it as email
You really want to do that in one line ?
why would it be undesirable to write short code that can do that?
I would say < 80 is definitely a one-liner, < 100 is more-or-less a one-liner, < 120 is really pushing it. After that, you're cheating. Even Java style guides cut you off after 120.
12 of these "one-liners" fail even the most permissive of these criteria, but, y'know, YMMV. None are over 140.
Their limit is at the top of the page:
> 2. How long is a line? Here, we limited users to 132 chars. It's the old line printer standard.