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Comment by dockimbel

Thanks for those answers. Let me add something for helping the visually impaired who have troubles reading the Red blog. Here is a simple Red script to retrieve information from the Red blog, then calculate and display (with a color fade-in effect) the upper bound result of the RED tokens sales:

    Red []

    page: read https://www.red-lang.org/2018/01/red-here-we-go.html
    
    parse page [
        thru "Private investors" thru "(" copy angels to ")"
        thru "open rounds"       thru "(" copy public to ")"
        thru "Private Investors" thru ">" copy angels-price to "RED"
        thru "Open round"        thru ">" copy public-price to "RED"
    ]
    angels: to-integer trim/with angels ","
    public: to-integer trim/with public ","
    result: (angels / load angels-price) + (public / load public-price)

    view [
        title "Token Sales Result"
        below
        text 300 "And the (upper) bound sales result (in eth) is:"
        h1 300 center bold beige beige rate 5 data result
        on-time [
            ff: face/font
            repeat c 3 [ff/color/:c: ff/color/:c - pick 4.2.3 c]
            if ff/color = black [face/rate: none]
        ]
    ]
This short example relies on two eDSL, one for parsing data, one for building a GUI. Such built-in features (not requiring any library) shouldn't be that bad for an "incomplete" language, right?
parent dockimbel 8 years ago

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