Red is both an imperative and functional programming language created in 2011 by Nenad Rakocevic. It is distributed as free software under the modified BSD license with a just-in-time compiler. Both are respectively based on the REBOL language and the REBOL interpreter.
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Paradigm | imperative, functional, symbolic |
Designed by | Nenad Rakocevic |
Developer | Nenad Rakocevic |
First appeared | 2011 |
OS | Syllable, GNU/Linux, Windows |
License | modified BSD license |
Website | Official website |
Influenced by | |
REBOL, Scala, Lua |
The Red programming language was presented during the Software Freedom Day 2011[1];[2] giving to its author a large audience; the video is still on the SFD homepage since September 2011. Rakocevic is also the joint winners of the REBOL of the Year 2011 election.[3] Red was first introduced in the Netherlands on February 2011 at the REBOL & Boron conference[4] by its author, who is also known to be the creator of the Cheyenne HTTP server.[5]
References
- ^ « Red », softwarefreedomday.eu, september 14, 2011.
- ^ « Red Programming Language: Red at Software Freedom Day 2011 », red-lang.org, september 14, 2011.
- ^ « Red & REBOL DevCon Winter 2012 », devcon, winter 2012.
- ^ « New Red Programming Language Gets Syllable Backend », osnews.com, May 2011.
- ^ « Red Alert! », syllable.org, May 2011.
External links
- Source code on GitHub.