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by almostgotcaught 391 days 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?)
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TOGoS 391 days ago
The 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).
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timbit42 391 days ago
It's actually more like Logo, which is Lisp with square brackets instead of parens and fixed arity.

Sassenrath wrote Amiga Logo before starting REBOL.

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