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by 9214 6y ago
My 2 cents: please add an example or two for dialecting and homoiconicity, because that's IMO not apparent from what I've seen so far (granted, I could have missed some bits), and the terms "dialecting" and esp. "ho
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by 9214 6y ago
Alright, but personally I fail to see how is that qualitatively different from all the other mainstream languages that use strings as a compensatory kitchen sink to encode literals not present by default.
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by 9214 6y ago
I see, so strings act as implicit "constructors" for datatypes (which are not even datatypes per se, just encoded information within a given string datatype), depending on their usage? This is indeed an interesting design choice.
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by 9214 6y ago
Red got sidetracked by an attempt to build local economy based on an ERC-20 token, to be precise: for tipping contributors, funding FOSS projects and helping maintainers, curating high-quality learning materials within community, etc. That
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by 9214 6y ago
Could you please elaborate in what aspects Arthuro is ideologically inspired by Rebol, aside from minor syntax resemblance?
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by 9214 6y ago
Which is in fact Logo's syntax. I don't see any literal forms for IP addresses, URLs, e-mails, dates, @references and hashtags in Arturo, which are historically present in Rebol and which make it unique.
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by 9214 6y ago
Compatibility with either Rebol 2 or 3 is not the goal, since Red takes the best parts from both.
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by 9214 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24686186
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by 9214 6y ago
Could you please elaborate on what you find confusing about Red? Am genuinely interested as an active member of that project.
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by 9214 6y ago
No, it's actually the other way around: Red and Rebol are interpreted by default, and Red has a bootstrapping AOT compiler capable of bridging it with Red/System (a C-like sub-language), which it turn targets machine code. However
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by 9214 6y ago
Nim and Red are quite different languages, both in terms of semantics and in terms of project's goals and scope. Perhaps you should elaborate on an intersection that you see between the two. I can speak only for Red: it takes its herit
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by 9214 6y ago
There's Red with its Parse meta-DSL. https://www.red-lang.org/2013/11/041-introducing-parse.html
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by 9214 6y ago
Blocks in Rebol are not a mere "stuff" delineated by square brackets. Rather, it's a heterogeneous container that can hold first-class values and represent both code and data (homoiconic property), thus serving as a base for
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by 9214 6y ago
The basic premise (The friendly data format for human & machine) instantly reminded me of Red language [1], which, by the virtue of homoiconicity, is also its own data format (both textual and binary [2]) with 50 datatypes, many with se
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by 9214 6y ago
For moderately small apps, Red language offers a cross-platform (Win32, Cocoa and GTK) graphical engine with an embedded DSL for declarative GUI specification. As a baseline comparison, 7GUIs task implemented with it clock under 300 LOC. h
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by 9214 6y ago
My comment about relevancy was more in line with @jdoliner's in the neighboring thread. I totally agree that tools and practices weren't quite there at the time and that things are different now. The takeaway from Salmon experimen
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by 9214 6y ago
Salmon story is more than a decade old at this point, and still as relevant as before; became an instant classic in my neuroscience-related MS programme. This Wired article elaborates on the motivation behind the study: https://w
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by 9214 6y ago
What I described is more of an internal monologue thing, not even at linguistic level but as an attitude and stance towards stress with anxiety. Should have phrased it better.
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by 9214 6y ago
Anxiety-management tricks that I personally employ is to either refer to a group/class I find myself in as "we" or to use passive rather than active voice. The former I borrowed as a kid watching Spider Man 1994, where Brock&
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by 9214 6y ago
Red language; foundation is based in Paris, France.
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by 9214 6y ago
The title instantly reminded me of "Capitalism and Schizophrenia" authored by Deleuze & Guattari. A very interesting text on micropolitics of desire.
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by 9214 6y ago
There's also a relatively old Common Lisp solution. https://vitovan.com/dino.html
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by 9214 6y ago
Kudos for mentioning the relation between FF:SW and Scheme, I didn't know that! This is one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. Pity the documentary [1] doesn't mention any of that. The ideas from Gaia theory and neovitalism
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by 9214 6y ago
"We, as innovators, must learn to keep a 50-year-old programmer as useful as a new recruit." speaks about the ageism in software industry before it was even conceived as a term!
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by 9214 6y ago
"Aesthetics and logic are both concerned with the enjoyment of a composition, as derived from the interconnections of its factors." -- Alfred North Whitehead, "Modes of Thought". I wonder how this ties up with Naur'
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by 9214 6y ago
TBH, the whole datatypes section needs a revamp. Will put Steve's blog on my weekend reading list. Cheers!
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by 9214 6y ago
Thank you for taking your time to do a review! The prescriptive tone ("you should") on datatypes page doesn't really match the intent of the reference documentation (i.e. to inform), I agree. Even if 50 vs 6-8 contrast sounds
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by 9214 6y ago
Interesting point, thanks. We do have community maintained learning materials [1] (+ wiki itself), official docs [2] and formal specification [3]; granted, even if put together they don't match the quality of a cohesive user guide. [1]
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by 9214 6y ago
A rather strange thing to say, given that (a) Github arbitrary limits number of displayed repositories (try to refresh the page a few times) (b) there is Gitlab and other Git-repository managers with VCSs (c) there's a Gitter chat with
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by 9214 6y ago
None or very few surface-level resemblances. Both projects live on the different planes of abstraction, have different goals, and take different paths in achieving them.

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