Is there an article out there that documents the differences between Factor
and Joy?
> *Why do we need a new stack-based language?*
>
> Because the other ones aren't suitable for high-level development.
> Forth<http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Forth>is great for low-level things,
> but its lack of type system and garbage
> collection make it difficult to debug programs, and it doesn't mesh well
> with functional programming. Joy <http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Joy>made
> a very important theoretical contribution, but it is difficult to
> compile efficiently, its syntax is inextensible and it has an insufficient
> module system. Additionally, it is almost purely functional, making many
> things difficult. Factor combines the best aspects of these two systems,
> together many other borrowings from various places.
>
The syntax of Joy is very simple. There is enough documentation on Joy to
get one started with concatenative programming.
Factor seems to have a lot more features than Joy.
Would like to request documentation of the aspects of Factor that are not
available in Joy.
Cheers,
Leonard
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