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by rumblestrut 1066 days ago
Whew. I’m glad this exists. It’s been a few days since yet another programming language has been introduced into the world.

Sarcasm aside, while I think striving to be better is great, sometimes I wish there was just a standard language for programming.

I realize it depends on the context (mobile, web, desktop application, different platforms) but it can feel overwhelming when in the end, they all pretty much do the same thing: tell a computer to do things.
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steveklabnik 1066 days ago
> It’s been a few days since yet another programming language has been introduced into the world.

Red is not a new language.

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Tozen 1066 days ago
Not at all. Is around 12 years old, and seems still quite far from hitting 1.0. I'm a bit amazed by that.
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troupo 1066 days ago
Because the author and the team keep setting unachievable timeframes.

Five-ish years ago they were aiming for a 1.0 within a year while still having major milestones like adding actors (and re-writing half of internals to support actors) on the roadmap.

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rumblestrut 1066 days ago
Still new to many.
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keithnz 1066 days ago
not new, and red is actually quite interesting compared to other languages, worth having a good look.

Also, worth reading Paul Grahams "Blub Paradox" article from decades ago... http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html (hopefully you know who he is given you are here on HN)

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brokenkebaby 1066 days ago
>I wish there was just a standard language for programming.

Approved by a Central Planning Committee, I suppose?

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chriswarbo 1066 days ago
> sometimes I wish there was just a standard language for programming

Good news, there is such a standard, and you can buy it here: https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/incits/ansix3531976r1998

Some choice quotes from the Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I ):

> PL/I (Programming Language One) is a procedural, imperative computer programming language initially developed by IBM. The PL/1 ANSI standard, X3.53-1976, was published in 1976. It is designed for scientific, engineering, business and system programming.

> IBM wanted a single programming language for all users.

> The language is designed to be all things to all programmers.[vague]

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hmry 1066 days ago
This language is more than 10 years old
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