As it's still early in terms of its development, it may be better to judge the language by perusing the pages of its predecessor: • Rebol in Ten Steps: http://

As it's still early in terms of its development, it may be better to judge the language by perusing the pages of its predecessor: • Rebol in Ten Steps: http://rebol.com/rebolsteps.html http://rebol.com/rebolsteps.html • Rebol Overview: http://www.rebol.com/docs/expert-intro.html http://www.rebol.com/docs/expert-intro.html Rebol is an elegant attempt at better using language to solve problems. It offers a rich vocabulary centered around words and includes natural representations of various types, such as URLs (that you can query), emails (that you can send messages to), times, dates and more. The main data structure (blocks) are instrumental in language flow and can be manipulated as data before being interpreted as code: • More than just code—A Deep Lake: http://www.rebol.com/article/0103.html http://www.rebol.com/article/0103.html It is different and it's not immediately apparent what it brings to the table. However, that it does have this depth and is squeezed into a < 1 meg package without dependencies hints at why there are a few of us that consider it tremendously versatile and worthy of a more prominent place in the development firmament.