It's true. Searing "Factor language" results in many *official* site: factorcode.org, wikipedia.org, github.com/slavapestov/factor, factor-language.blogspot.com, etc. and offers many general information.
But for some specific task, things become worse. For a real example which I have encountered Yesterday: "Factor language hex number". The first five pages of google search result has only one link(IIRC) which related to Factor language: http://factor-language.blogspot.com/2009/09/advanced-floating-point-features.html It is useful, but not helpful to me(a novice of Factor). "Factor language hex number site:stackoverflow.com" is worse. In fact, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/factor has the correct brief summary "Factor is a concatenative programming language that was influenced by Forth, Joy and Lisp." but has less than one thousand posts and most of them are not related to Factor language. Finally I got the correct information from http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-syntax-integers.html . To be honest, I did some guessing and got the answer(0x12) before find the link. But for other task, guessing may work for me in that day losing comprehensive information(e.g. the binary literal) and most importantly, surprise me in the future. In my personal opinion, there are at least two differences between C and Factor: * C is more popular than Factor. * unlike "C", "factor" has many meanings in different domains: math, engineering or even variable name. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
