Syntactic Beauty

Do you want to know something that I really like about REBOL? No? Well, too bad, because I'm telling you anyway. What I really like is the syntax of REBOL, or rather its lack of syntax.

Let's say you want to create an associative array in PHP, for example. It might look something like this:

$fruit_colors = array("banana" => "yellow",
                      "apple" => "green");

To print the color of a banana, you would then do something like this:

echo $fruit_colors["banana"];

Obviously, there's a whole lot of syntax going on there. If you have a swedish keyboard layout, like I do, you would have pressed a modifier key, like shift or alt, seven times while typing the last line alone, which strains your fingers. What if we were to do the same thing in REBOL?

fruit-colors: [
    banana yellow
    apple green
]
 
print fruit-colors/banana

It's so clean and beautiful that it makes me want to cry tears of joy. Well, not really. But almost.

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