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Re:Show HN: qdbp – a minimal, elegant, safe, and expressive ... by speps on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @03:22AM (#35710477)
Very elegant, good job!

Although I'm surprised there's no mention of REBOL or Red[1]. Very similar philosophy regarding constructs and keywords.

[1] https://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html

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Re:Show HN: qdbp – a minimal, elegant, safe, and expressive ... by dghosef on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @12:55PM (#35716735)
> Very elegant, good job!

Thanks!

> Although I'm surprised there's no mention of REBOL or Red[1]. Very similar philosophy regarding constructs and keywords.

I am not too familiar with either language. It seems like we have very similar philosophical goals but with very different approaches. Red/REBOL are minimalistic but extensible with macros/homoiconicity, while qdbp is minimalistic but has a versatile object system and expressive syntax allowing many constructs to be built as libraries. I debated adding macros, but decided that qdbp was expressive enough as is and macros would probably double the complexity of the language.

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