Factor: an extensible interactive language

Courtesy Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Wed, 10/29/2008 - 16:19

Factor: an extensible interactive language , Google Tech Talk by Slava Pestov.

Factor is a general-purpose programming language which has been in development for a little over five years and is influenced by Forth, Lisp, and Smalltalk.

Factor takes the best ideas from Forth -- simplicity, succinct code, emphasis on interactive testing, meta-programming -- and brings modern high-level language features such as garbage collection, object orientation, and functional programming familiar to users of languages such as Python...


 

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