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- Hi, Do you feel that your agility in Factor has improved since this post? Roger
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It’s been a couple of months and I’m still slower writing code in Factor than in Python or Scheme. So why am I still writing code in Factor? Well it turns out that the problem is also the attraction:
You can’t hack in factor.
In python you can hack out co ... Continue reading »
You can’t hack in factor.
In python you can hack out co ... Continue reading »
1 year ago
1 year ago
The solution to the problem you state so well about keeping track of stack contents is to document your code with stack diagrams! Ive been doing this successfully since the early 1980s with Forth. Not only does it help relieve the cognitive load while coding, it pays for itself a thousand times over when revisiting that code weeks or months later.
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Don Groves
1 year ago
By encouraging this factorisation, Factor is making it easier for me to understand what the original programmer *meant* when they wrote it.
1 year ago
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Don Groves
1 year ago
1 month ago
Do you feel that your agility in Factor has improved since this post?
Roger