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When Rebol first appeared it reminded me very much of new language that appear at the same time called Curl (not be confused with ubiquitous HTTP tool). The si
by agentgt 9y ago
When Rebol first appeared it reminded me very much of new language that appear at the same time called Curl (not be confused with ubiquitous HTTP tool).
The similarity, goals, and timing of release of both languages is in interesting convergence. Curl unfortunately tried to go to commercial and died a quick death. I'm glad Rebol and now Red are doing well.
- greggirwin 9y agoIndeed, Curl had a number of common goals with Rebol. Good insight.
- vram22 9y agoSuch as? Interested to know, please see sibling comment by me.
- greggirwin 9y agoThe main one was that having a single language was a win, compared to mixing 6 or 7 of them, and their associated cognitive overhead. Red expands this in both directions, with Red/System as the low level dialect and metaprogramming at the highest level.
- vram22 9y agoI got to know about the Curl language and tried it out some when it came out. (IIRC Tim Berners-Lee was involved with it in some way, and I later read that the tech was sold to some Japanese company). They had an IDE called Curl Surge (IIRC). I thought it was an interesting and potentially useful language, specially for web apps. But (with the caveat that I did not try Curl out for long), not sure how similar Curl was to Rebol. I thought Curl was a bit like Lisp, so AFAIK the only / main similarity with Rebol might have been homoiconicity (if I'm right about them both having that property). But could be wrong.