Editing Rebol (section)

==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 (programming language)|Lisp]], [[Forth (programming language)|Forth]], [[Logo (programming language)|Logo]], and [[Self (programming language)|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 [[Open Database Connectivity|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.
# {{anchor|Rebol_3}}''Rebol 3'' [R3], the newest version of the [[interpreter (computing)|interpreter]], had alpha versions released by REBOL Technologies since January 2008.  Since its release as an Apache 2 project in December 2012, it is being developed by the Rebol community.<ref>{{cite web|title=Source code for the Rebol interpreter|url=https://github.com/rebol/rebol|website=rebol/rebol GitHub|access-date=14 March 2017}}</ref>