[ale] Simplicity (in relationship to computers and programming)

[Charles Shapiro]

Indeed they are enjoyable and intriguing.  I 'specially liked his
"simplicity" one, as someone who has been guilty of
makin' amazing little complicated languages.

I remember looking at REBOL back before 2000.  It's exciting to see
that it's still around.  Maybes I should take another pass at it.

-- CHS


On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Carl Sassenrath is a "University of HP" graduate circa 1983.
> Subsequently, in 1984, he designed the EXEC OS for the
> groundbreaking Amiga computers.  It was a multi-tasking,
> multi-threading, message based Operating System that
> could run in as little as 256 Kilobytes of memory.
>
> In my personal stack of respected icons from the computer
> industry Carl Sassenrath sits right next to Dennis Ritchie
> and Linus Torvalds. (There are only a few others, and
> names like Jobs and Gates aren't even on the system).
>
> For several years Carl's pet project has been developing the
> REBOL language, which is fully supported across almost
> all OS platforms (yes, including Amiga) with freely distributable
> OS integrated interpreters / run time engines. I explored
> REBOL briefly, and while I can't claim to have ever fully
> wrapped my head around it's genius, the fact of the
> language's genius seems self evident in its simplicity.
>
> Carl's REBOL blog has been quiet for several months,
> but I found his post from March regarding a definition
> of "Simplicity" quite intriguing:
>     <http://www.rebol.com/cgi-bin/blog.r>
>
> His 2009 commentary on "The True Danger of Viruses
> and Worms", written in response to the 'conflicker'
> computer industry panic attack, is another particularly
> cutting commentary:
>     <http://www.rebol.com/article/0405.html>
>
> Hope you find these enjoyable and thought provoking.
>
> peace
> aaron
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