Re: Understanding REBOL...

Carl Read (carl)
11-Aug-2008/1:28:08-4:00
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On Sunday, 10-August-2008 at 15:07:11 Brian Tiffin wrote,

>I too would like to a see a document that describes the high level and 
>connects it to assembly.  The equivalent of Dr. Ralph's "The Implementation 
>of the Icon Programming Language" would be a wondrous thing.
>
>To be honest, I've always felt like arcanesentiment.  Z-80 Assembler was how I 
>learned programming.  My warm fuzzy comes from thinking in terms of 
>addresses, registers and machine instructions.  Without coming to grips at 
>that level, I end up feeling lost.  I love REBOL enough to ignore that twinge 
>most of the time, but then feel that efforts to help out with the 
>documentation and advocacy can only end up as epic fail due to the 
>disconnect.

I don't really find any problem with that, as I feel REBOL's so far abstracted away from the hardware
for it not to matter.  If the code we were writing was to be compiled it might make a difference, but
it's not, it's interpreted, and all I ask is that it's interpreted the same way on whatever OS or machine
it's on.

We do need to know everything about how our code will be interpreted though.

-- Carl Read.

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