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Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL

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95 points Levitating | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 03:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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zkmon ◴[31 Aug 25 06:20 UTC] No.45080822[source]▶
Wow - what's driving the quest for new programming languages? Is there a gap that is still not addressed by the existing languages?

At the core, there is only one control statement (GOTO) and a few operations that work on values in memory - IF, READ, WRITE, ADD etc. Anything else is a recipe that uses these ingredients.

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1. wiz21c ◴[31 Aug 25 07:46 UTC] No.45081256[source]▶
languages are not about what you can do but what you can safely (that is, without introducing bugs) abstract while remaining productive (you can code easily) and conducive of human organizations (you can organize team communication around the code).