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Beginning Factor is like programming assembler

Started by phildawes · 9 months ago

Yesterday I was musing over why it took me so much longer to get going with Factor compared to the other languages I’ve learnt over the years. I came up with this:
Factor’s base language is very fundamental and primitive in nature. Programming it is similar to programming ... Continue reading »

4 comments

  • manu

    1 year ago

    How did you get about learning it ?
    Is there any accessible tutorial aimebd at beginners (I have no previous experience of stack PL) ?
    Thx
    reply
  • Phil Dawes

    1 year ago

    Hi Manu,

    The factor cookbook started me off, but the thing I found really good was Leo Brodie's "Thinking Forth" Book, which helped convince me that time spent learning a stack language wasn't a waste of time.
    reply
  • mschaef

    1 year ago

    This is one of those posts that could work really well with an example...
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  • Phil Dawes

    1 year ago

    hmmm.. I think you're right. Maybe I should elaborate in another post. In the meantime I suspect the factor mailing list is littered with examples. Here's a recent one.
    reply

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