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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red
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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red

by Ivo Balbaert
May 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
252 pages
6h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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What Red stands for

Red is short for Red[uced] REBOL, and that's why Red users proudly call themselves reducers. This points to two things:

  • Red builds upon REBOL, a language that gained some fame around the millennium and was built by Carl Sassenrath. In fact, Red is syntactically and semantically a 95% clone of REBOL, but tries to improve and enhance it where possible. This also means REBOL scripts can be easily converted to Red.
  • Red (like REBOL) wants to reduce today's code complexity—it aims to have compact runtime environments and dependencies (around 1 MB), instead of the hundreds of MB of the Java or .NET platform.
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