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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: 0.2s | 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. ModernMech ◴[31 Aug 25 14:19 UTC] No.45083335[source]▶
That's like asking "What's with all these people writing books? Is there a gap that is still not addressed by existing books?" Programming languages are fun to write, it's not more complicated than that.