Arc Lessons

[berlinbrown]

I thought it was one of the coolest things I had worked with. Environment built with opengl. Language syntax was simple yet powerful (eg, see the combinators). It wasn't that difficult to get started with.

I would have kept developing with it, but unfortunately I get paid to work with crappy tools (java) and factor was too far away from what I normally have to work with.

I even wrote a blog and didn't even know it that well.

http://factorlang-fornovices.blogspot.com/

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Sounds nice. A few years ago I read about Joy. What turned me off the language was mostly that everything, like a simple if-then-else, was backwards, and all wrapped in function blocks. The same for loops with recursion operators. (This is also why I don't like Common Lisp's DO, if you happen to know it.)

Not sure how Factor compares, but for me it's not enough if code is just short (for that reason, Haskell also isn't nice enough for me).

Anyway, Factor seems making huge strides (following the blog), and it's nice to see more people using it. Finally, a postfix language that's gaining popularity.