FWD: Jforum: REBOL-like network access from J

["rashworth" <rashworth@mail.warpnet.net>]

FYI           Bob Ashworth

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: James Hague <jamesh@Volition-inc.com>
Reply-To: forum@jsoftware.com
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:50:12 -0500 

Earlier this year I took a long look at the REBOL language.  For some things
it is wonderful; for other things it is less so.  I finally decided that it
is the easy network access that makes REBOL appealing, and not the language
itself.  It is yet another dynamically typed, interpreted language, like J,
Perl, and Python.  But in REBOL it is just as easy to access URLs (both http
and ftp) and POP3 mailboxes as it is to read and write files.  This makes it
trivial for writing scripts that fetch and parse web pages, filter email,
and so on.

My query:  Has anyone run into a simple network access library that has
similar features?  Then it would be easy to do the same things in J.  The
entire REBOL executable is only 250K or so; I'd expect a 50K DLL would put J
on par with REBOL in terms of networking.

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