Red (programming language)

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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.

Red
Red Logo (stylized Tower of Hanoi)
Paradigmimperative, functional, symbolic
Designed byNenad Rakocevic
DeveloperNenad Rakocevic
First appeared2011
OSSyllable, GNU/Linux, Windows
Licensemodified BSD license
WebsiteOfficial 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]

Language Schema

 

References

  1. ^ « Red », softwarefreedomday.eu, september 14, 2011.
  2. ^ « Red Programming Language: Red at Software Freedom Day 2011 », red-lang.org, september 14, 2011.
  3. ^ « Red & REBOL DevCon Winter 2012 », devcon, winter 2012.
  4. ^ « New Red Programming Language Gets Syllable Backend », osnews.com, May 2011.
  5. ^ « Red Alert! », syllable.org, May 2011.