> Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:06:34 -0700 > From: William Tanksley <wtanksle...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Factor-talk] CAMF > To: factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <1239804394.5559.83.ca...@tanksley> > Content-Type: text/plain > > FICL is a tiny and elegant embedded language; Factor is a complete > application language.
I have experimented with Factor a little bit now and I'm very impressed. At this time however, I think that FICL is the best choice for my CAMF project. There is no way that the company owners are going to allow factory-floor employees to run a compiler such as Factor on company-owned computers. By comparison, FICL is an interpreter. I can make a highly restrictive environment that can only be used for gcode generation, and that can't crash the computer or access any other data on the computer. I don't know if you guys are Americans or not, but my experience here in the land of the free is that employees are very restricted in what they can do on company time. Getting CAMF accepted is going to take a lot of diplomacy on my part. I have to convince the bosses that CAMF is safe, and that the employees won't be using it to play computer games. Originally I was going to use Groovy, that runs on the JVM, but I chose FICL instead because Forth is a lot easier to explain to non-programmers. CAMF has to be super-simple, as a lot of employees just aren't into learning new skills --- if you know what I mean. I agree that Factor is a oriented toward writing applications, and I'm still interested in Factor for this purpose. Specifically, I would like to try writing a text editor in Factor. It might eventually become the IDE for CAMF, although that would be quite a ways down the road. Is there one available that I could study? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
