Precedence in Rebol
Aug. 9th, 2015 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birguslatroI've not mentioned Rebol for a while, so I'll post a link to a nice question and answer about it...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31870134/expression-precedence-in-rebol-and-smalltalk
The big failure with Rebol is not everything's written in it, like it should be. (By 'everything' I mean the backend and frontend of webpages, for instance. It could replace the programming language on the server along with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. And possibly the database language you're using on the server as well. And if Rebol's too slow for the latter, Red promises not to be.)
As it is, we're switching between half a dozen different languages, each with their own syntax etc. just to make a bog-standard webpage. The human brain isn't optimized to work like this.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31870134/expression-precedence-in-rebol-and-smalltalk
The big failure with Rebol is not everything's written in it, like it should be. (By 'everything' I mean the backend and frontend of webpages, for instance. It could replace the programming language on the server along with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. And possibly the database language you're using on the server as well. And if Rebol's too slow for the latter, Red promises not to be.)
As it is, we're switching between half a dozen different languages, each with their own syntax etc. just to make a bog-standard webpage. The human brain isn't optimized to work like this.