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Idiomatically written Red is largerly data-driven, composed out of mini languages and micro formats (dialects), with huge emphasis on homoiconicity and rich set
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Idiomatically written Red is largerly data-driven, composed out of mini languages and micro formats (dialects), with huge emphasis on homoiconicity and rich set of available datatypes.
Functions indeed are mostly used to guide the flow of program and stack dialects on top of one another, so the resulting app is like a dedicated toolchain (or even a VM), where each component is a small interpreter or compiler.