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[–] Andy@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In case you haven't heard, Factor just had a new stable release, and is tons of fun for postfix enthusiasts.

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never understood how concatenative programmers can hold the current state of the stack in their head and never get confused about what is where, especially when changing complex code.

[–] Andy@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Haha I'm still working that out for sure. I guess a combination of comments, a good debugger, practice, patterns such as making many very small well defined functions, and frankly a bunch of the people being geniuses (myself certainly excluded).

[–] eeleech@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, i hadn't heard oft Factor before, it looks interesting. I'm more of a LISP and FP Person but always wanted to properly learn a stack based language, Factor seems like a nice alternative to Forth for that purpose.