Byte.com: Book Review -- Rebol: The Official Guide | Linux Today

Byte.com: Book Review — Rebol: The Official Guide

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 5, 2000

“Rebol is often described as scripting language.”

“It is actually much more than that. Rebol is also a
language-description notation (based on the Backus-Naur Form), a
CGI-handler, and a visual programming language. Rebol is an
object-oriented language with inheritance and polymorphism, if you
wish it to be. It is also a procedural and functional language, if
you prefer, or even your particular mix thereof.”

In other words, Rebol is all of Perl, Python, C, C++, Lisp,
Scheme, and PHP3. It may not have all the functionality or power of
each of the aforementioned languages and scripts, but it certainly
contains their best concepts and features.

“The book, Rebol: The Official Guide, is true to its title.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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