I got some experience with Factor after written some code(instead of just read http://concatenative.org/).
The good news(to me) is that the code could be factored out more easily in Factor and in concatenative languages in general than in other languages, surely :) Was the name of Factor chosen for this reason? And the bad one is also related to this. The biggest problem I encountered is cause by the name, "Factor". Search result of "Factor" on google, stackoverflow, reddit, quora, etc. are all about mathematics and software engineering practices. In fact, the official documentation(both online and in the development system) of Factor are nice, well organized, comprehensive and very helpful. And the original blog(http://factor-language.blogspot.com/) have many interesting topic, especially the low-level ones. But the supplementary infomation from the internet are also import, at least to me. Furthermore, I'm not the first one: http://guillaume-nargeot.blogspot.com/2009/08/think-twice-before-naming-your-new_21.html . If the name was "Factour"(with the same pronunciation but different spell) or "CFactor"(as opposite to JFactor) the situation may be better. A opposite example may be Clojure which is used in my company. To be honest, the documentation of Clojure has many rooms to improve in comparison to Factor. But it has an unique name: [meaning and pronunciation of Clojure](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/4uDxeOS8pwY/UHiYp7p1a3YJ). If it was "Closure" I couldn't get so many useful infomation from the internet and have confident to use it in production. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep Android apps secure. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
