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it's lisp with square braces instead of parens (and then a whole bunch of other random things like a gui library in the standard library?)
by almostgotcaught 1y ago
it's lisp with square braces instead of parens (and then a whole bunch of other random things like a gui library in the standard library?)
- TOGoS 1y agoThe square brackets aren't really analogous to Lisp's parentheses; REBOL / RED use parentheses for the same purpose, if you need them. The square brackets are more like square brackets in Factor or Joy; they are 'quotations' around a list of words (or other syntactic structures; basically they make a list that is not evaluated immediately).
- timbit42 1y agoIt's actually more like Logo, which is Lisp with square brackets instead of parens and fixed arity. Sassenrath wrote Amiga Logo before starting REBOL.