History
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. Alpha versions have been released publicly since January 2008.
Following the discussion with Lawrence Rosen, REBOL 3 interpreter is being prepared for release under Apache 2.0 license.
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