[ale] OPEN-ing the way for a REBOL-ution?

[Aaron Ruscetta]

Today, doing my semi-annual check in on the world of Carl Sassenrath,
genius developer of the game changing Amiga EXEC OS and  creator
of the (truly) cross platform REBOL language and run time environment,
I very happily discover the following:

<http://www.rebol.com/cgi-bin/blog.r?view=0519>
<http://www.rebol.com/cgi-bin/blog.r>

REBOL has been touted as a departure from many other languages
with an extreme focus on code efficieny -- capable of doing with 400
characters what would take 4000 in most any other language. There
is some similarity to Java in the mechanics of implementation, except
that REBOL is TINY, SECURE, EFFICIENT and EASY TO CODE,
with a competent, consistent GUI environment and MEDIA handling
built in.

That Carl has chosen to release REBOL 3.0 as Open Source is
HUGE.  Imagine replacing Java on Android with something that
actually works the way Java was supposed to.

in peace
aaron