Re:Show HN: qdbp – a minimal, elegant, safe, and expressive ...
by dghosef on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @12:55PM
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> 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.
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.