Make a $400 app in 30 REBOL lines!?
December 4th, 2008I said I won’t write about REBOL for a while but I must echo this. Yesterday near midnight my client called with a problem at hand. He needed a niche functionality that is not so typical for webapps and is better solved with a separate running process. We googled the net to dig out more info from RFC-s and found 3 such apps that were selling for $400 (the third was a .NET componenet selling for $320). Their descriptions seemed scary and complicated. But I knew that this is a task where rebol’s unique features would really shine. So I wrote something that roughly does what that $400 app does in 30 lines of REBOL.
Well but I won’t tell you what this is. I might develop it further and sell it for half of that price. This is vengeance for all the “wtf is rebol, meh, ignore..” moments. 
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December 4th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
sounds like easy money
December 4th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
surely easier that making AAA games at the yellow hat company
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:12 pm
REBOL is fantastic for those types of glue solutions and it’s a great way to reel in new users. Please keep writing about your REBOL experiences.
Thanks.
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
yes, this was exactly it .. a glue app that used the fact that REBOL can talk a bunch of different protocols and that it has “parse”. Basically no other language no matter how big that I know provides both these things on such level even remotely.