Gielis' superformula.
Speaking from experience, me and my good friend often "weave" together by playing rounds of hipbone games [1] on a napkin. And the better you know each other, the more it feels like this [2]. [1]:…
"The less money they had, the more ambitious they got. At the end they stopped working at all and went on and on complaining about capitalism"
Native speaker here: if you believe something has been lost in translation, feel free to ask me for clarification.
Thanks for giving me a perspective as a younger generation! I wasn't even born at the time, and obviously see our daily reality differently. OTOH, I think what you just described falls into p. 1 and 4.
Thank you for the offer, but, in all honesty, you should rather donate your money to Ukrainian support organizations. I'm already privileged enough to work remotely from home and earn a decent salary.
The common narrative I see on tech forums since 24th Feb is this: "if various sanctions and blockings will make average Russians' life miserable enough (i.e. even more miserable than it already is), they will stand up…
Thanks you, but I'm way past this — mostly because I reevaluated my stance towards academia and have a family to support here. To clarify: I contacted one of the professors directly, whom I visited, who was aware of my…
In 2022: zero, unless you have relatives/friends from abroad who are willing to help. I'm mid-20s below-average Russian born and raised in a city with population of 19k (and declining), Ural region. Average salary here…
That escalated pretty quickly.
On a related note: https://www.reddit.com/r/redlang/comments/aebxct/contrast_re...
Instantly reminded me of "Body Electric" by Robert Becker. A fascinating account of how novelty in research is often ridiculed despite being revolutionary, interspersed with various electromagnetic theories: from limb…
> REBOL/Red-lang goes more towards "a more pragmatic regular language for pattern recognition" Rebol and Red use embedded PEG parsers, which, by definition, support context-free, and not just regular, languages.
> They are well funded. Rebol Technologies went bankrupt, and Rebol is de-facto dead since more than a decade; Red barely manages to get by thanks to a recent crypto spike. > I would say the languages are very different…
If you like Tsutomu Nihei's megastructures and video games (specifically Half-Life 2 modding scene and old-school, retro-to-the-bone shooters), you should check out G String [1]. My 2020 GOTY hands down. But an absolute…
Rebol2 is de-facto abandoned, Rebol3 has split into divergent community forks [1], and Red suffers from setbacks with organizational issues trying to deliver its vision. Carl is not involved in any of the projects. In…
FYI, Rebol ideas took their root in a historical continuation: https://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html
Good point about Tcl, that now makes sense. Thanks for elaborating!
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.…
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.
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…
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…
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.
Compatibility with either Rebol 2 or 3 is not the goal, since Red takes the best parts from both.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24686186
Gielis' superformula.
Speaking from experience, me and my good friend often "weave" together by playing rounds of hipbone games [1] on a napkin. And the better you know each other, the more it feels like this [2]. [1]:…
"The less money they had, the more ambitious they got. At the end they stopped working at all and went on and on complaining about capitalism"
Native speaker here: if you believe something has been lost in translation, feel free to ask me for clarification.
Thanks for giving me a perspective as a younger generation! I wasn't even born at the time, and obviously see our daily reality differently. OTOH, I think what you just described falls into p. 1 and 4.
Thank you for the offer, but, in all honesty, you should rather donate your money to Ukrainian support organizations. I'm already privileged enough to work remotely from home and earn a decent salary.
The common narrative I see on tech forums since 24th Feb is this: "if various sanctions and blockings will make average Russians' life miserable enough (i.e. even more miserable than it already is), they will stand up…
Thanks you, but I'm way past this — mostly because I reevaluated my stance towards academia and have a family to support here. To clarify: I contacted one of the professors directly, whom I visited, who was aware of my…
In 2022: zero, unless you have relatives/friends from abroad who are willing to help. I'm mid-20s below-average Russian born and raised in a city with population of 19k (and declining), Ural region. Average salary here…
That escalated pretty quickly.
On a related note: https://www.reddit.com/r/redlang/comments/aebxct/contrast_re...
Instantly reminded me of "Body Electric" by Robert Becker. A fascinating account of how novelty in research is often ridiculed despite being revolutionary, interspersed with various electromagnetic theories: from limb…
> REBOL/Red-lang goes more towards "a more pragmatic regular language for pattern recognition" Rebol and Red use embedded PEG parsers, which, by definition, support context-free, and not just regular, languages.
> They are well funded. Rebol Technologies went bankrupt, and Rebol is de-facto dead since more than a decade; Red barely manages to get by thanks to a recent crypto spike. > I would say the languages are very different…
If you like Tsutomu Nihei's megastructures and video games (specifically Half-Life 2 modding scene and old-school, retro-to-the-bone shooters), you should check out G String [1]. My 2020 GOTY hands down. But an absolute…
Rebol2 is de-facto abandoned, Rebol3 has split into divergent community forks [1], and Red suffers from setbacks with organizational issues trying to deliver its vision. Carl is not involved in any of the projects. In…
FYI, Rebol ideas took their root in a historical continuation: https://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html
Good point about Tcl, that now makes sense. Thanks for elaborating!
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.…
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.
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…
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…
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.
Compatibility with either Rebol 2 or 3 is not the goal, since Red takes the best parts from both.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24686186