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Bo
Rebol3-controlled walking robot is now available at http://ameridroid.com/products/owen-walking-robot-kit .
amacleod
Thats so cool, Bo
I love that stuff

Ashley
Munge 2.1
    added APPEND-COLUMN, FETCH, LATIN1-TO-UTF8, ROWS?, TO-SQL-DATE
    updated LIKE, OLEDB?, SORT-ALL (added /reverse)
    renamed EXCEL-SHEETS? to SHEETS?
    removed LOOKUP
    replaced EXECUTE with dedicated SQLCMD and SQLITE functions
    replaced WORKSHEET with WRITE-EXCEL (about 10x faster)
    removed all dependencies on VBS and temporary file creation
    fixed minor Excel column handling limitations
    excel functions now work with accdb
    use of deline/lines to speed up line parsing
Updated documentation available here:
- http://dobeash.com/Munge/support.html

Reichart

AdrianS
From giuliolunati in the SO chat:  Giulio is working on an Emscripten build of Ren/C - you can see it in action here:
http://giuliolunati.altervista.org/r3.html
Nick, I know you've been waiting for someone to take this on for quite some time. Hopefully, this will be generally useful in the not too distant future.

Ladislav
See
http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/29358533#29358533
Maxim
Arnold, all the forks of rebol/rebol are the same repository, including ren/c  they cannot delete rebol/rebol.
Github won't remove it anyways.  why would they ?

SWhite
Another REBOL-related document has come into existence on the internet.  This is documentation, for a very specific audience, about how one might use REBOL for working with data outside REBOL's "natural habitat," in the land of fixed-format data files.  It tries to explain which REBOL functions are most useful in that area, and to provide some helpful code modules. The document is located at: http://www.cobolrebol.com/pages/documentation/FixedAndCSVFiles.html

Geomol
New version of The World Programming Language is out. This is a major alpha release with lots of new stuff incl. non-blocking networking by implementing libevent..
Check group #World here in REBOL4 @ AltME.

DocKimbel
Enjoy! ;-)

Ashley
    OLEDB error handling improved
    rewrote append-column and added /dup refinement
    added merge/default refinement
    load-dsv parse logic fix to handle utf8
    Replaced to-sql-date with to-rebol-date and to-string-date
    rows? and first-line faster
    load-dsv/delimit renamed /with
    load-dsv/split now a separate split-dsv func
    added unarchive
    can update via conditon (e.g. [all [find c2 "@" c2: first parse c2 "@"]])
    munge now accepts vector!
    alphanums?, alphas? and digits? now also accept binary!
    digits? also checks for not empty
    replaced like with like and glob
    added write-excel/filter
    added spec? function
    sqlcmd now does a SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF
    added /string to load-excel
    added /hdr to load-excel
    added remove-column
    added to-string-time
    added binary-file?
    added spec?/as-is
    fixed obscure group bug with to-block
    handle presence of u160
    re-added formula support to write-excel, e.g.
        write-excel/filter %test.xlsx [
            "Test" ["Response" "Count" "Yes" 10 "No" 5 "" "=SUM(B2:B3)"] [20 10]
        ]
Updated documentation available here:
- http://dobeash.com/Munge/support.html

DocKimbel
Enjoy reactive programming! ;-)

DocKimbel
Red's github repo just passed 1000 stars bar, not a big deal compared to mainstream languages, but still significant enough to mention. This is the first time an open source project from Rebol's ecosystem reaches that level. This means that we are on the right track, and Red is gaining more momemtum with each new release. Hope this will motivate more people to help us continue pushing it higher and higher. ;-)
Gregg
Congratulations Doc!
Approaching 300 members on the Gitter channel now too.
Will
1000 stars is great! Hopefully half of them are ladies! 8-)

DocKimbel

Reichart
:)
.............. just remmeber "killer app"
(and try to forget that I can't spell)

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