RE-BOL, A Place To Start Learning Rebol
I’ve been nosing around the Re-Bol site. Rebol is a little different, but it isn’t some mysterious and foreboding thing to fear. Nick Antonaccio’s tutorial on this site is worth going through.
This is a beginner’s introduction to the Rebol language and environment.
I’m currently working my way through it. (And also a book, REBOL: The Official Guide, ISBN 0-07-212279-X; enter that ISBN on the Amazon or Barnes & Noble site if you wish to search for the book.) Then, I’m hoping to try out some shell script type functionality.
For instance, I recently had a twenty-plus page document scanned to PDF. Because of a setting error, I wound up with each page as a separate file (instead of filename.pdf, it was filenamepdf0001 and so on, without an extension). I manually renamed each file one at a time and then merged them into one (thanks, PDFTK). At the time, I realized that one could probably do this with Rebol, Python, Ruby, Rexx, GNU Smalltalk, and other languages, but I didn’t have the time to waste figuring it out. Now that I have time to think about it, I’m hoping to have something ready if ever I make a similar mistake.
RebolTutorial, do you have any ideas?
