Subject: RE: Difficulties with the Refal System
From: Helmut Enck-Radana (her@paradigma-software.de)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 08:41:10 MSK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arkady Klimov [mailto:klark@bagirra.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 07 February 2001 09:48
> [...]
> | I also tried to download Refal-6, but I'm always receiving
> | error messages.
> Did you recieve error messages when opening page or downloading
> or running?
I could read the page
http://www.refal.net/english/doc/ark_klimov/index.html,
but I could not download
http://www.refal.net/english/doc/ark_klimov/Refal6.zip.
> In fact I also couldn't enter my Refal6 site from www.refal.net,
> so I suggest to try
> http://www.keldysh.ru/dpt_16/Refal6/index.htm
Yes, this one worked. But I'm afraid I will not be able to make an efficient
use of the system only with the documentation which is included in the
distribution.
I was surprised to see that the Refal-6 executables are older than that of
Refal-5. Isn't Refal developed further anymore?
> [...]
> Alexandr have experimented with Refal-written XML-parser in Refal5.
> It is not that slow as one might anticipate.
> (As far as I remember that parser also allowed for attributes).
Thanks for this reference.
> [...]
> By the way, may be it looks as anti-advertisement here, but I use
> now myself the SML for processing XML.
I also thought of using a language of the ML family, but unfortunatly I've
been procrastinating to learn one of these languages for quite a long time
now, and regarding the XML transformations I need some results quite
quickly. When I found Refal, I was impressed by the simplicity and elegance
of the language.
> If you wish, I could also share with you some of our tools
> (nonvalidating parser, unparser).
Thanks for the offer, I possibly will approach you later regarding this.
-- Helmut
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