Hello all. I'm an undergraduate student (formerly CS, now math) and I've been reading this list since the beginning of the STEPS project: this is one of the most promising things I'm aware of going on in computing right now. (I'm a big fan of Haskell's rising popularity, although it's more of a case of gradual improvement, building on the traditions of Lisp and ML etc..) Still, I'm puzzled how I've never seen anyone here mention the "other" famously compact, dynamic, self-contained system: Forth. There's been a recent resurgence of interest in stack languages, mostly around Slava Pestov's Factor (http://factorcode.org), which seems to me to share many themes with the STEPS/FoNC work, although it's certainly more pragmatic in orientation and less earth-shaking. Does anyone here have any experience with Forth or Factor that they'd care to comment on?
Here's a Google Tech Talks video of Pestov introducing Factor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0QlhYlS8g - Max OrHai _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
