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I dunno, I kind of like the energy that he gives off, and stack-based languages are a nice complement to high-level languages such as lisp.

I would certainly find myself using factor in very small footprint systems rather than C or asm.

Seems like this is useful innovation, and there is not much innovation happening in the C language world, relatively speaking.

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You're thinking of Forth, not Factor- Mr. Pestov seems to want to compete more with high level languages like Python than with C. Factor has garbage collection, and compiles to images [ a la smalltalk ], not really attributes that scream 'embedded' to me.

I like how you put [a la smalltalk] in square brackets, rather than in parentheses (a la lisp).

It would seem that is the case. The factor image is within a few percent of the sbcl lisp image. Nonetheless, the energy is contagious.