Hi Hugh, Your Factor examples looks too much like Forth. Ideally there would be no stack shuffling at all:
: par ( r1 r2 -- r ) [ * ] [ + ] 2bi / ; : pars ( seq -- val ) [ ] [ par ] map-reduce ; Chris Double's version of pars is also nice. Doug On Oct 5, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > Well, I've taken a stab at writing some documentation comparing > Factor to > Forth. Take a look at this (www.rosycrew.org/FactorVsForth.dvi) and > let me > know if this is going in a direction that you think will be useful. > > Despite the title, I'm not allowing the book to become a "my > language can > beat up your language" type of discussion. It is a pretty fair > comparison, > IMHO. > > If you don't have a dvi viewer, let me know and I will convert it into > another format. Also, please excuse the primitive formatting. I was > working > on Windows and I didn't have all of the packages that I am > accustomed to > under Linux --- it can be made more professional looking later, but > that is > not a high priority right now. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart > your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and > stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register > now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
