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   Witless Protection Program (pikesley@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 02:59:34 JST Witless Protection Program

   "BUT THE #LLM HELPS ME CHURN OUT BOILERPLATE" I am once again begging you to try to imagine working towards a world where we don't need the boilerplate

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 02:59:33 JST iced depresso

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     @pikesley > a world without boilerplate
     REBOL would like to have a word with you :comfypeek:
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 03:11:06 JST iced depresso

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     @pikesley the real thing that made it nice was that DSLs were an up-front goal (they called it dialecting.)
     
     code stayed as a bag of symbols unless you evaluated it. you were intended to use this so you could just read parsed code like an array of things and use that to write your own job specific interpreters.
     
     they never got a whole lot of those for various reasons. the draw dialect was meant to be a proof of concept.
     
     in a way its like Lisp macros
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     Witless Protection Program (pikesley@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 03:11:09 JST Witless Protection Program

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     • iced depresso

     @icedquinn "Rebol is nearly syntax free. And, as you become fluent, you end up writing code in sentences, somewhat similar to human languages" yeah I've been caught out by this before