Douglas Crockford of JavaScript fame has described REBOL as " a more modern language, but with some very similar ideas to Lisp, in that it's all built upon a representation of data which is then executable as programs " and as one of JSON's influences.

Since then, he has written several new versions of REBOL and produced additional products such as REBOL / View, REBOL / Command, REBOL / SDK, and REBOL / IOS.

He has also written thousands of pages about REBOL, hundreds of script examples, and a dozen or more useful REBOL applications.

Sassenrath calls REBOL his grand experiment, because unlike most programming languages, REBOL provides greater control over context, and words can be used to form different grammars in different contexts ( called dialecting ).

If programs are modifiable at runtime or if incremental compilation is available ( such as in C #, Forth, Frink, Groovy, JavaScript, Lisp, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, REBOL, Ruby, Smalltalk, and Tcl ), then techniques can be used to perform metaprogramming without actually generating source code.

Some current prototype-oriented languages are ECMAScript ( and its implementations JavaScript, JScript and Flash's ActionScript ), Cecil, NewtonScript, Io, MOO, REBOL, and Lisaac.

Some programming languages, such as JavaScript ( since 1. 7 ), Lua, occam 2, Perl, Python, REBOL, Ruby, C ++ ( since C ++ 11 using tuples ), and Windows PowerShell allow several variables to be assigned in parallel, with syntax like:

REBOL ( ; Relative Expression Based Object Language ) is a cross-platform data exchange language and a multi-paradigm dynamic programming language originally designed by Carl Sassenrath for network communications and distributed computing.

The language and its official implementation, which is proprietary freely redistributable software, are developed by REBOL Technologies.

REBOL Technologies also claims the name REBOL as a trademark.

First released in 1997, REBOL was designed over a 20 year period by Carl Sassenrath, the architect and primary developer of AmigaOS, based on his study of denotational semantics and using concepts from the programming languages Lisp, Forth, Logo, and Self.

REBOL Technologies was founded in 1998.

REBOL 2, the interpreter, which became the core of extended interpreter editions, was first released in 1999.

REBOL / Command, which added strong encryption and ODBC access, was released in September 2000.

REBOL / View was released in April 2001, adding graphical abilities on the core language.

REBOL / IOS, an extensible collaboration environment built with REBOL was released in August 2001.

REBOL / SDK, providing a choice of kernels to bind against, as well as a preprocessor, was released in December 2002.

REBOL 3, the newest version of the REBOL interpreter, is currently in development.

* REBOL reifies code as data and vice-versa.

He brought multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel, and he is currently the designer of the REBOL computer language as well as the CTO of REBOL Technologies.

The result was REBOL, the relative expression-based object language.

Sassenrath explains REBOL as a proper balance between the concepts of context and symbolism, allowing users to create new relationships between symbols and their meanings.

Sassenrath claims REBOL is the ultimate endpoint for the evolution of markup language methodologies, such as XML.

The other main idea behind REBOL is to keep computing lightweight, and more specifically to offer a more efficient method of distributed computing.

Sassenrath admits that REBOL is not for everyone.

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Southern resentment has been over the method of its ending, the invasion, and Reconstruction ; ;

The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.

The North should thank its stars that such has been the case ; ;

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

The malignancy of such a landscape has been beautifully described by the Australian Charles Bean.

There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.

Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.

But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

In the life sciences, there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease, in the mechanisms of heredity, and in bio- and physiological chemistry.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.