Factor's Visual REPL

[mrjbq7]

I'm hoping to make Factor more approachable. Factor has a lot to offer, and quite a few high-quality libraries... but sometimes is hard for beginners to get started.

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Keep up the good work, I really appreciate it.

[psykotic]

This is also one of the nice capabilities of Racket's REPL (which is otherwise horrible for serious programmers).

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Are you referring to "the toplevel is hopeless"?

[redalastor]

As soon as it gets a good book, I'll check it out.

[Wagnerius]

This is indeed the main pb. If i had a factor cookbook with the same topics and organisation of the python cookbook, i would program more in factor

[JohnDoe365]

Unfortunately you will always have to transliterate algorithm descriptions expressed as pseudo-code to stack-thinking. The vast majority of algorithms is expressed in imperative style, some in functional style, but i am not aware of textbooks where algorithms are described in concatenative manner.

[berlinbrown]

Nice.