draegtun

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   by draegtun 10y ago

   Also see DBD::CSV which been around since 1998! - https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::CSV
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   by draegtun 10y ago

   Yes Rebol is a great language to teach kids, especially Rebol/View ( http://rebol.com/docs/easy-vid.html ). Below is an example of it draw dialect: view layout [ box 320x200 effect [ draw [ p
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   Prototypal Object-Oriented Programming Using JavaScript(alistapart.com)

   1 points by draegtun 10y ago|0 comments
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   by draegtun 10y ago

   "IfThenElse" in Rebol (called either ) is also just a function with 3 args: either 1 = 1 [print "true!"] [print "false!"] Here's an example of writing this in Rebol directly: if-then-else: fu
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   by draegtun 10y ago

   You should find this of interest because this is how USE is written in Rebol: >> source use use: make function! [[ "Defines words local to a block." vars [block! word!] "Local word(s) to the block&q
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   by draegtun 10y ago

   Yes the article deserves more attention so hopefully it will get much more eyeballs this time round :)
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   by draegtun 10y ago

   Only got one comment but this article was also posted a week ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11541170
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   Rebol vs. Lisp Macros(blog.hostilefork.com)

   7 points by draegtun 10y ago|1 comments
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   by draegtun 11y ago

   Here's a previous HN discussion on Hjson - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8432678
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    And similar with Rebol / Red where you have two distinct quoting literals... "string with no newlines" {A multi-line string that can run over over many lines and {even be} nested} For unbalanced {} string then y
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    It's available for Perl5 too - https://metacpan.org/pod/Whatever
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    For Rebol 3 GUI binaries / source code go to Atronix Rebol - http://www.atronixengineering.com/downloads/ For latest community development see Ren/C - https://github.com/metaeducation/ren
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    How I Vim – Damian Conway(howivim.com)

    5 points by draegtun 11y ago|0 comments
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    CL-WHO is an often forgotten grandfather of Hiccup - http://weitz.de/cl-who/ Also here's a quick list of some other CL-WHO alternatives - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/671572/cl-who-
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    It's good to see the SQL Phrasebook Pattern still in use. They were quite popular before ORMs caught on. I'm currently writing one in Rebol so they must have come back into fashion :) There is an another (slightly older) Clojure
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    I've seen a few around. Here's one HN post that I can quickly recall - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9216299
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    The takeaway worker who set up a fast-growing IT firm(bbc.co.uk)

    4 points by draegtun 11y ago|0 comments
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    Lessons learned from open source communities(medium.com)

    8 points by draegtun 11y ago|1 comments
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    >> design interfaces using only code The lines are blurred in Rebol because code is data and data is code . >> the author seems to advocate that UIs should be disconnected from events I don't think the author is advo
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    I've only had limited experience of Rebol View (VID & R3-GUI) so I don't feel qualified enough to give you a clear answer. However I can provide you with some HN comments that contain Rebol GUI code that I've posted here
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    Understanding Rebol Series(medium.com)

    2 points by draegtun 11y ago|0 comments
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    While Grammars as a language feature aren't mainstream (yet!) they're not a unique feature either. For eg. See the parse dialect which is a TDPL that comes with Rebol / Red - http://www.rebol.com/docs&#x2
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    Boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland over TalkTalk hack(bbc.co.uk)

    3 points by draegtun 11y ago|2 comments
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    Here's a collection of Whitespace interpreters - https://github.com/hostilefork/whitespacers
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    Here's a video which accompanies this post - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR5Fzv6DP0I&feature=youtu.be
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    I agree. This scheduler dialect for Rebol is pretty much the DSL you describe - http://softinnov.org/rebol/scheduler.shtml
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    In terms of development toolkit and implementation then yes Red could/should be considered the "modern Rebol". However in terms of the language (syntax & semantics) then Rebol 3 is definitely the "modern Rebol&quot
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    It's trivial to add an arg words style lambda to Rebol. For example, here is a very naive version: lambda: function [block] [ args: sort unique collect [ parse block [ any [ w: se
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    And I would also add Perl's DateTime library to this list - https://metacpan.org/pod/DateTime
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    by draegtun 11y ago

    Carl Sassenrath is another programming language designer who as long been a proponent for simplicity . Some links: * Definition of Simple (2011) - http://www.rebol.com/article/0509.html * Fight Software Complexity