What about REBOL (www.rebol.com)

Joe Marshall jmarshall at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jan 24 12:55:28 EST 2000


I don't want to add too much noise to an off topic discussion, but
I'd like to clarify something Tim Peters said.

Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote in message
news:001401bf63f3$3a6eb5c0$ec2d153f at tim...
>
> One large & basic difference is that Python is primarily object-oriented,
> while REBOL is primarily function-oriented.  I count REBOL as a member of
> the lexically scoped branch of the Lisp tree (despite that it *looks*
> nothing like Lisp, a REBOL "block" is a lexical closure, and the semantics
> are virtually identical to Scheme's)

REBOL abandoned lexical closures in version 2.0, so the semantics have
become quite different from Scheme's.






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