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by sph 1068 days ago
Weird take but ok. I abandoned my research into Rebol to look into Self (1987) and Smalltalk (1972).

The problem with abandonware languages like Rebol is that it's often impossible to use, find documentation for if not learn, and the commercial story and lack of any sense of open source of this probect is the reason why I just moved on. It seemed no one cared to look into it in the past decade, so I was content with what I had found, and stopped short of actually using the thing. I was wrong, but in my defence the active fork was doing its best to hide under a rock.

But I guess it feels good to call someone a kid and a fool over the Internet.