Red programming language 0.6.2: LibRed and Macros

Re:Red programming language 0.6.2: LibRed and Macros by soapdog on Monday March 27, 2017 @06:17PM (#13972328)

Circa 1999 REBOL was our language of choice at our tiny company. It allowed our small team to develop faster than our competitors. We still did a ton of PHP and Java because our clients required it but lots of our internal tools were REBOL based and were quite pleasant to use and extend.

I have been following Red from a distance waiting for it to be ready for the kind of usage I want to put it through (mostly small desktop apps). I think that Red / REBOL are among the most fun languages to use for personal projects.

PS: Brazilian, not Czech...

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Re:Red programming language 0.6.2: LibRed and Macros by vanderZwan on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @06:07AM (#13975357)

Is Brazilian CompSci culture relatively oriented towards embeddable languages? Lua and Céu come from there too. Might explain the adoption rate of Red.

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Re:Red programming language 0.6.2: LibRed and Macros by soapdog on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @09:30AM (#13976379)

I don't think we can say that Brazilian CompSci is oriented towards embedding. I studied at the university where Lua and Céu were created, so my personal experience is biased towards such languages and yet, I don't remember us focusing on the embedding part.

Our REBOL experience was also not related to embedding but towards expressiveness and quick prototyping.

I think I expressed myself badly, when I said "Brazilian, not Czech", I was just referring to myself, as a new non-Czech datapoint :-D, Red is not Brazilian.

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