REBOL Enables server-managed client-side computing
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Enables server-managed client-side computing REBOL is a messaging language for distributed Internet applications that run across all devices.REBOL comes with several common Internet protocols built-in. No includes, imports, or special libraries are needed. Protocols include HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, APOP, IMAP, NNTP, Finger, Daytime and more. You can also roll your own with our TCP and UDP support.In addition to the datatypes found in most languages, REBOL can also express money, times, dates, words, tags, logic, lists, hashes, tuples, XY pairs, and many other datatypes. These are built-in. No other REBOL modules or libraries are required. This eliminates the "run anywhere but you don't have everything you need" syndrome and provides a high level of consistency between all platforms.Doctors express their ideas in medical terms, stockbrokers in trade terms, and quarterbacks in football terms. Why? Because it's more efficient and productive. That's the benefit of dialecting. Dialecting is the ability to create sub-languages that provide you with extra leverage and productivity by expressing your solutions in terms that are best suited to your purpose. As an example, check out REBOL/View's Visual Interface Dialect.REBOL is intended to be read by ordinary humans. The language is consistent and free from unnecessary punctuation. Datatypes such as dates, times, money, URLS, email, TCP addresses, are written exactly how you would expect. No special "constructor" syntax is required.You can compress and decompress text and binary files directly from the language, providing you greater efficiency in data transfer.Here are some key features of "REBOL":· Machine and System IndependentPrograms run on more than 40 platforms without modification. Programs that you create on your PC will run on your Windows/CE portable, your graphic artist's Macintosh, your system administrator's Linux, your web site's Sun Solaris, and dozens of other platforms.· Integrated NetworkingREBOL comes with several common Internet protocols built-in. No includes, imports, or special libraries are needed. Protocols include HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, APOP, IMAP, NNTP, Finger, Daytime and more. You can also roll your own with our TCP and UDP support.· Rich Set of Built-in DatatypesIn addition to the datatypes found in most languages, REBOL can also express money, times, dates, words, tags, logic, lists, hashes, tuples, XY pairs, and many other datatypes. These are built-in. No other REBOL modules or libraries are required. This eliminates the "run anywhere but you don't have everything you need" syndrome and provides a high level of consistency between all platforms.· Domain Specific DialectingDoctors express their ideas in medical terms, stockbrokers in trade terms, and quarterbacks in football terms. Why? Because it's more efficient and productive. That's the benefit of dialecting. Dialecting is the ability to create sub-languages that provide you with extra leverage and productivity by expressing your solutions in terms that are best suited to your purpose. As an example, check out REBOL/View's Visual Interface Dialect.· Multi-level SandboxesSeveral levels of operational security are built-in. The default is a "safe" mode, where absolutely no files can be written to or deleted from your system without your permission. You can adjust the security to your level of comfort and the trust you place in the script you are running.· Clean SyntaxREBOL is intended to be read by ordinary humans. The language is consistent and free from unnecessary punctuation. Datatypes such as dates, times, money, URLS, email, TCP addresses, are written exactly how you would expect. No special "constructor" syntax is required.· Compression Built-inYou can compress and decompress text and binary files directly from the language, providing you greater efficiency in data transfer.· Small Program FootprintREBOL downloads from the net in seconds, or fits on a floppy with room to spare for your scripts. On most platforms the REBOL system is less than 250 KB in size... but, don't underestimate it! Every one of those bytes is packed with substantial power.· Minimal InstallationJust run it. Want to give it to a friend? Just copy the program file to a floppy and pass it along.Advanced Technical Features· A parser dialect provides a direct method of grammar specification for dialecting as well as for pattern matching.· The language allows embedded documentation directly in the interfaces of functions and the headers of scripts. The documentation travels with your program, and meta functions like Help and library archiving can make use of the info.· The language is a symbolic. This allows words to be used to represent meaning in any data structure or data base.· It is highly reflective. Programs can easily read and modify other programs. In fact, REBOL is its own meta-language.· Functions are highly polymorphic. For instance, you can add not only numbers, but also times, dates, tuples, money, and xy-pairs.· Refinement paths provides generic namespace navigation.· Definitional scoping allows definition-based name binding on demand.· Prototype-based objects allow cloning, extending, and one-of-a-kind creation.· Full exception handling for error recovery.· Auto-expanding arrays (series) for lists, strings, binary, etc.· Automatic storage management for simpler programs.

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