Mackie; Part of my presence here on compsci is as a self appointed REBOL advocate; http://rebol.com. Get used to R2, then give us all a hand getting the new R3 released. The Unicode alpha hit the streets a few weeks back, but there is still lots to do re; modules and tasks, network protocols, well lots and lots.
While most of the developments occur in a closed, by invitation only, Altme world, Carl asks public questions here http://www.rebol.net/cgi-bin/r3blog.r and sometimes on his main blog, here; http://www.rebol.com/cgi-bin/blog.r If you are interested, I can invite anyone to one of our main closed worlds, and if you are good enough, I can ask about getting people invited to the very closed r3-alpha group. Carl purposely keeps this group small, tight and focused to keep a high SNR.
We really could use help ensuring REBOL Release 3 is the best that it can be. And why not be part of a language design team. It's pretty cool.
And just so I don't always sound like a REBOL broken record. Walter Bright is very active in D 2.0 development and quite open to suggestions. Guido is still in Python 3000 development and (although I don't really know), I'm guessing that system is still open enough to accept suggestions as well.
But, from my perspective; try and not be a lemming for lemmings sake; pick your languages by merit and personal taste. You will live a happier life (perhaps with that little twinge of angst over "hey, why don't people get it.").
Cheers
By the way. If you ever wanted to run a secret society on the internet, start at http://altme.com/ |
I only play Python; haven't ever felt a strong urge to try and run with the big dogs of the community. Does his personality lead to frustrated fans or a strong follow the leader parade I wonder? I remember the Linux Kernel team getting a little exacerbated with Linas until be finally picked some lieutenants.
