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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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mpweiher ◴[31 Aug 25 07:47 UTC] No.45081267[source]▶
It's all just Turing machines, or Lambda calculus, or NAND gates

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_logic
Even FORTRAN was unnecessary.

Or maybe...maybe...we're having some problems that our current programming languages aren't addressing:

https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/publications/media...

And so we should:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689492.3690052

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1. justin66 ◴[31 Aug 25 17:24 UTC] No.45084988[source]▶
It’s all ball bearings nowadays.