ilyash-b
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5 years ago Took a look at Red and Rebol.
- No immediate takeouts
- Outstanding feature that might be of interest to NGS at some point: literals for many types.
- Interesting feature: /redo in
return value /redo. Can't see any straightforward implementation of this feature in any non-homoiconic language. - DSLs idea is already in NGS (with commands and expressions syntax). In Red/Rebol DSLs are used much more while keeping the same syntax (among DSLs).
- Reminds me of Tcl. Apparently not only to me.
- Advertised advantage (among others): small binary size.
To get some feeling about Rebol: http://www.rebol.com/docs/reference.html
http://www.red-lang.org/p/documentation.html