factor

Some short functions look so beautiful... but I have a hard time as stuff gets more complex. https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/blob/master/extra/anag... IMO this: MEMO: dict-words ( -- seq ) "/usr/share/dict/words" ascii file-lines [ >lower ] map ; is beautiful.

Factor has a library for setting up floating point environments that might interest you. I think we implemented all of the functionality you might need and it's nestable with dynamic scoping. I haven't needed to use it for anything though. Code: https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/blob/master/basis/math... Tests: https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/blob/master/basis/math... Docs: http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-math.floats.env.h...

Factor is general-purpose and you can write most anything you want at this point. Here's tar in Factor: https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/blob/master/extra/tar/... For untarring the linux kernel, Factor tar beats /usr/bin/tar on my Mac by 1s, but 30s vs 6s on Linux for some reason. Could be SSD vs spinning disk, or worse i/o code on Linux. Funnily, there are about 10 files that differ in case only, and Mac file system is case-insensitive by default, so you can't even untar the linux kernel correctly. Here's host using the dns client library: https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/blob/master/extra/tool... https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/blob/master/extra/dns/... I wrote it because gethostbyname is blocking and Factor has nonblocking i/o for everything else. There's a cross-platform disk usage tool that outputs the same stuff as d

0.96 was released April 20, 2013[1] and was rather solid to use. Glad to hear that it received a fair amount of hype before (I wasn't aware of that myself -- perhaps I missed that phase). Most languages seem to release rapidly as 'low-hanging fruit' features are worked on, and then seem to plateau as major releases get longer and longer in between. Factor came to my attention during the 0.94 release in 2010, which was solid enough to learn Factor in a great IDE. I wish that I'd had more time to invest more seriously over the years, but am extremely glad that it's still being actively worked on. You can tell this from the Factor github commit log[2]. As far as I'm aware, since the community is rather small, most people that code in Factor don't bother much with the release numbers and just compile their images straight from github as commi

We made stack effects mandatory for most definitions as it appeared an area of frustration with new Factor programmers. However, we have a stack checker that still supports optional stack effects if you yearn for the good ol' days: https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/issues/887

Although it feels likes a one programmer effort, there have been a few of us contributing consistently over the years: https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/graphs/contributors

The Factor documentation is hosted at http://docs.factorcode.org. Feel free to browse! It's the same set of docs that you also have access to locally when you download the Factor binaries[1] or pull/compile from github[2]. The concatenative.org[3] wiki also has similar starting material and pointers. Factor is a fun language. The blog that I linked to is written by one of the Factor contributors. [1] http://factorcode.org/ [2] https://github.com/slavapestov/factor [3] http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/Learning

http://factorcode.org/ (https://github.com/slavapestov/factor) A new programming language based on the concatenative programming paradigm. Not my project, I'm just an enthusiastic contributor. It's the most intelligent and powerful language ever. But a lot of library components are missing and needs to be written. :)

Wrote this into Factor last year. It even has the orange color in the terminal! https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/blob/master/extra/hack... IN: scratchpad USE: hacker-news USE: io.streams.256color [ hacker-news. ] with-256color` Hacker News 1. FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software (news.cnet.com) 104 points by ojbyrne 2 hours ago | 32 comments 2. Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall (spritesmods.com) 200 points by pd0wm 5 hours ago | 46 comments ..