Factor: an extensible interactive language

[b43xoit]

How different from Joy?

[stevedekorte]

Not sure why Slava says Smalltalk can't add a method at runtime without recompiling existing methods. IIRC, it can. But like Objective-C, changing ivars can require a recompile.

[johnmair]

what he said about ruby (@ 45 mins) is only true of block parameters, not true of variables defined within the block/lambda in general. Further this was acknowledged as a 'bug' and is fixed in the most recent version of ruby.

[jsakltk]

no way, jose

[valberm]

estas tre sprita en la komenco: "saluton, cxiuj!" Kaj oni vidas preskaux neniun!!

It's so funny at the beginning. The guy says: "hello, everybody" and you can see almost nobody in the audience!!

[emptist]

Fakto estos esperanta lingvo :)

[Tia1ko]

@valberm: Right now I can see at the lower right corner of the video: "20 032 views" ;-)

[karmacop911]

this looks like a beautiful language. i think i'm going to pick it up to create my custom game making tools that i've been wanting to make.

[PriestBurn]

now thats a pretty big number ... heeey

[Veritian]

This guy is good at what he does. I know him. Factor is my favorite language. Don't talk trash about a language before writing any code in it. Factor's mathematical power is solid, with seamless bignums and complex values built in without libraries.

[DJgamer999]

how did you get the video to be over 10 min. long?

[zyxrationalist]

CloJure is way way advanced as a language

or may be this presentation was bad.

When u talk about language keep the libraries away for atleast first half of the persentation.

[snashik]

Interesting..kinda like FORTH on steroids

[bootiack]

I remember mccarthy put smak down on ruby by asking his commentator if it was neccesary to iterate each time to do xyz in ruby. Guy said yes. Mccarthy then said ruby is not where lisp was in 1960.

[Disprofuse]

Can you explain that more? What talk?

[leimy2k]

Haskell doesn't *really* have this problem. Classes are groupings of functions, and you can later make things instances of those classes by defining functions of that class for your new object.

I don't see a major advantage yet to factor, but the Forthiness is neat.

[Tia1ko]

"Classes are groupings of functions"

Is this properly called "function", or is it rather a more abstract, uhm, "operation"? (Isn't there a special term for this stuff in CT, anyway?)

[cronin1024]

boa constructor... nice :)

[jankoM2]

Great talk!