LkpPo
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But no one has bothered to write a complete manual like Carl did for Rebol, and the language is a partial implementation in Rebol which has a hybrid Rebol/Red syntax that must ultimately be bootstrapped in Red. In short, you have the scaffolding around it and if you are not a total fan or a dev of the project it is not even worth it.
I also use it to write CLI scripts to exchange data between programs. The wealth of extensions and good UTF-8 support are a plus.
Yet, manipulating text effectively is the most important operation. Incomprehensible.
EditPad does it and it's absolutely brilliant, but it's only usable on Windows. E