Factor Language Blog

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18 Sep 2010 » Factor 0.94 now available
11 Sep 2010 » An overview of Factor's I/O library
05 Sep 2010 » Making Factor's continuous build system more robust
03 Sep 2010 » Two things every Unix developer should know
28 Jul 2010 » Overhauling Factor's C library interface
02 Jul 2010 » Factor talk in Boston, July 26th
29 May 2010 » Comparing Factor's performance against V8, LuaJIT, SBCL, and CPython
10 May 2010 » A collection of small compiler improvements
16 Apr 2010 » Factor 0.93 now available
08 Apr 2010 » Frame-based structured exception handling on Windows x86-64
04 Apr 2010 » Switching call stacks on different platforms
23 Mar 2010 » Incompatible change in Mach exception handler behavior on Mac OS X 10.6
11 Mar 2010 » Adding a recaptcha to the Factor pastebin
24 Feb 2010 » Final classes and platform-specific vocabularies
16 Feb 2010 » Factor 0.92 now available
25 Jan 2010 » Replacing GNU assembler with Factor code
18 Jan 2010 » How Factor implements closures
10 Jan 2010 » Factor's bootstrap process explained
27 Dec 2009 » Freeing Factor from gcc's embrace-and-extend C language extensions
06 Dec 2009 » Reducing image size by eliminating literal tables from code heap entries
16 Nov 2009 » Mark-compact garbage collection for oldest generation, and other improvements
15 Oct 2009 » Improved write barriers in Factor's garbage collector
30 Sep 2009 » A survey of domain-specific languages in Factor
12 Sep 2009 » Advanced floating point features: exceptions, rounding modes, denormals, unordered compares, and more
02 Sep 2009 » Eliminating some boilerplate in the compiler
29 Aug 2009 » Struct arrays benchmark revisited: trig function calls are slow in Java, but without them Factor is still 3x faster
28 Aug 2009 » Performance comparison between Factor and Java on a contrived benchmark
24 Aug 2009 » New tool for locating external resource leaks
24 Aug 2009 » Status of the PowerPC port, and Snow Leopard's imminent release
10 Aug 2009 » Global float unboxing and some other optimizations
30 Jul 2009 » Dataflow analysis, computing dominance, and converting to and from SSA form
17 Jul 2009 » Improved value numbering, branch splitting, and faster overflow checks
09 Jul 2009 » Improvements to Factor's register allocator
26 May 2009 » Factor's implementation of polymorphic inline caching
22 May 2009 » Live status display for Factor's build farm, and other improvements
21 May 2009 » Unboxed tuple arrays in Factor
08 May 2009 » Factor VM ported to C++
18 Apr 2009 » Recent UI improvements
08 Apr 2009 » OpenGL textures and the power-of-two size restriction
07 Apr 2009 » Rendering text on Windows via Uniscribe
01 Apr 2009 » Sup dawg, we heard you like Smalltalk so we put Smalltalk in your Factor so you can send messages while you roll
20 Mar 2009 » Better static safety for higher-order code
03 Mar 2009 » Rendering Unicode text with Pango and Cairo
20 Feb 2009 » Metric bounds versus image bounds
19 Feb 2009 » A note about libdl functions on NetBSD and the "Service unavailable" error
17 Feb 2009 » Font metrics and baseline alignment
15 Feb 2009 » Implementing OpenGL texture caching and bitmap image support in the Factor UI
29 Jan 2009 » Rendering Unicode text to an OpenGL texture using Mac OS X CoreText
21 Jan 2009 » Unicode font rendering in the Factor UI on Mac OS X
12 Jan 2009 » Bug in Intel video driver version 2.4 for Linux fixed in version 2.5
11 Jan 2009 » Screencast: editing Factor code with Emacs and FUEL
10 Jan 2009 » Java 7: too little, too late
02 Jan 2009 » Advantages of concatenative and stack-based languages
19 Dec 2008 » Discussion of concatenative languages on various blogs
15 Dec 2008 » Prevalence of shuffle words and dataflow combinators
04 Dec 2008 » Arrays of unboxed primitive values, and a faster Mersenne Twister
01 Dec 2008 » Factor now fully supported on 64-bit Windows
30 Nov 2008 » New features in SMTP and SSL library allow sending e-mail through Gmail
29 Nov 2008 » Faster generic arithmetic and integer overflow checking
26 Nov 2008 » Some recent UI rendering fixes
24 Nov 2008 » Comparing the performance of Factor and V8
23 Nov 2008 » Factor presentation at OTUG
11 Nov 2008 » Factor port to Win64 in progress
06 Nov 2008 » Further performance gains
03 Nov 2008 » New low-level optimizer and code generator
01 Nov 2008 » West coast trip: 100% success
25 Oct 2008 » California trip - presenting Factor at Google, VPRI and Galois
30 Sep 2008 » New and improved Factor web applications
20 Sep 2008 » Mac OS X x86-64 binary package available; Factor now supports 12 platforms!
13 Sep 2008 » Improved performance on the raytracer benchmark
12 Sep 2008 » Sorting strings with embedded numbers
08 Sep 2008 » OpenBSD cannot allocate more than 1Gb of RAM per process
08 Sep 2008 » New location for Factor downloads
06 Sep 2008 » Solution for slow localhost lookups with getaddrinfo on OS X
06 Sep 2008 » Improved tuple literal syntax
02 Sep 2008 » Clearing out the dead wood
31 Aug 2008 » Factor is now five years old
24 Aug 2008 » New optimizer
24 Aug 2008 » Three language changes
10 Aug 2008 » An algorithm for escape analysis
06 Aug 2008 » Persistent hashtables
10 Jul 2008 » Optional type declarations for tuple slots
07 Jul 2008 » Factor crash with GCC 4.3.x resolved
05 Jul 2008 » BLAS bindings and high-level wrapper library
05 Jul 2008 » On shaking trees
03 Jul 2008 » Don't set shared file descriptors to non-blocking
30 Jun 2008 » An interesting use-case for the spread combinator
29 Jun 2008 » Cedric's code challenge
27 Jun 2008 » Windows handle inheritance
18 Jun 2008 » HTTPS support in http.server, some notes on HTTP request/response parsing
14 Jun 2008 » What is a fluent interface?
10 Jun 2008 » Dequeue protocol, and search dequeues
07 Jun 2008 » Syntax proposal for multi-methods
07 Jun 2008 » Cleave combinators and URL objects
06 Jun 2008 » Persistent vectors
24 May 2008 » Removing duplicates from a sequence
22 May 2008 » SSL/TLS support added
20 May 2008 » What's up with Digg.com?
14 May 2008 » Improved destructors merged into core; working on SSL binding
10 May 2008 » Garbage collection throughput improvements
05 May 2008 » I/O changes, and process pipeline support
29 Apr 2008 » USA Zip code database
29 Apr 2008 » An addendum to "The new HTTP server, part 2"
29 Apr 2008 » Write once, run anywhere
29 Apr 2008 » The new HTTP server, part 2
19 Apr 2008 » Performance improvements
19 Apr 2008 » My top 8 shell commands
11 Apr 2008 » Multi-touch gestures in the Factor UI
11 Apr 2008 » Improvements to io.monitors; faster refresh-all
08 Apr 2008 » The golden rule of writing comments
08 Apr 2008 » Multi-methods and hooks
05 Apr 2008 » GC fixes and improvements
03 Apr 2008 » Inheritance is done
03 Apr 2008 » Converting a table to a tree
31 Mar 2008 » Inheritance, tuple reshaping, cleavers, and language evolution
27 Mar 2008 » Working on inheritance
20 Mar 2008 » New slot accessors merged; future direction for Factor
20 Mar 2008 » Some improvements to locals: let* and methods with named parameters
12 Mar 2008 » The new HTTP server, part 1
11 Mar 2008 » Faster serialization
08 Mar 2008 » Forth Foundation Library
07 Mar 2008 » New-style slots in io.launcher and smtp
01 Mar 2008 » New convention for unit tests
28 Feb 2008 » Improvements to io.files
22 Feb 2008 » Improved alarms library
20 Feb 2008 » Factor crash with gcc 4.3.0
19 Feb 2008 » Some changes to threads
19 Feb 2008 » Boxes
17 Feb 2008 » Some rudimentary control flow analysis
14 Feb 2008 » Invoking the gdb disassembler to disassemble words
14 Feb 2008 » Fast and safe jump tables
12 Feb 2008 » File system change monitoring on Mac OS X
11 Feb 2008 » Another status update
08 Feb 2008 » APIs designed around fixed-width integer types
07 Feb 2008 » New logging framework
06 Feb 2008 » New syntax for ratios
06 Feb 2008 » Improvements to the unit test framework
05 Feb 2008 » A simple application using io.monitor: a tail -f replacement
04 Feb 2008 » File system change notification on Linux
01 Feb 2008 » 24-bit strings are in
31 Jan 2008 » Some things I've been working on
31 Jan 2008 » Generic resource disposal
25 Jan 2008 » Improvements to io.launcher
23 Jan 2008 » What's up with non-blocking I/O APIs?
19 Jan 2008 » Factor talk at Ruby.mn
14 Jan 2008 » Defended my thesis
09 Jan 2008 » Multi-methods in Factor
09 Jan 2008 » Mailing list archive problems, again
08 Jan 2008 » Compiler overhaul
22 Dec 2007 » Going to Dominican Republic
13 Dec 2007 » Factor 0.91 now available
12 Dec 2007 » Improved help.lint tool
08 Dec 2007 » Factor-powered pastebin with syntax highlighting for 100+ languages
05 Dec 2007 » planet.factorcode.org now has an Atom feed
25 Nov 2007 » Factor 0.91 benchmarks
24 Nov 2007 » The process launcher, parser combinators, and /bin/sh
23 Nov 2007 » Adventures with Cygwin on 64-bit Windows
23 Nov 2007 » Deploying stand-alone applications on Windows
17 Nov 2007 » Converting a file from big endian to little endian (or vice versa)
12 Nov 2007 » CGI support in the Factor HTTP server
12 Nov 2007 » Improved process launcher
12 Nov 2007 » Windows CE native I/O
12 Nov 2007 » Network clipboard tool written in Factor
09 Nov 2007 » Windows CE Pocket Console crash when writing long strings
06 Nov 2007 » Asus Eee PC
06 Nov 2007 » Lie algebra cohomology and cellphones
05 Nov 2007 » Problems with flushing the instruction cache on Nokia n800
30 Oct 2007 » Playing around with the UI
28 Oct 2007 » Improved usability of profiler tool
28 Oct 2007 » SourceForge mailing list archive problems
24 Oct 2007 » Going to Minneapolis
19 Oct 2007 » Going to Montreal on Monday
16 Oct 2007 » IBM developerworks is lame
12 Oct 2007 » New addition to planet-factor blogroll
12 Oct 2007 » New toys to play with
10 Oct 2007 » Announcing Planet Factor
10 Oct 2007 » Passing structs by value on AMD64
30 Sep 2007 » Improved intrinsics for alien accessors
28 Sep 2007 » First impressions of git
27 Sep 2007 » A neat trick for refactoring code
22 Sep 2007 » How to publish a git repository
22 Sep 2007 » The Factor project switches to git
21 Sep 2007 » Factor web site redesign
20 Sep 2007 » Building the latest Factor sources on Ubuntu Linux
17 Sep 2007 » Bignum libraries
17 Sep 2007 » Factor x86 calling convention
17 Sep 2007 » Quick poll of x86 users
13 Sep 2007 » Software engineering best practices
10 Sep 2007 » Two minor incompatible changes as a result of two-tier compilation
10 Sep 2007 » Two-tier compilation comes to Factor
02 Sep 2007 » Factor is now four years old
01 Sep 2007 » Factor 0.90 now available
30 Aug 2007 » Partially redrawing an OpenGL scene in response to exposure events and state changes
29 Aug 2007 » C/C++
29 Aug 2007 » OpenGL redraw bug on Windows
28 Aug 2007 » Units and reversable computation
28 Aug 2007 » HTTP server on factorcode.org
27 Aug 2007 » Back from Austin
26 Aug 2007 » When to use locals
26 Aug 2007 » FactorCon wrap-up
22 Aug 2007 » FactorCon summer 2007
17 Aug 2007 » The great Factor computer shootout
17 Aug 2007 » gcc is open sores software
16 Aug 2007 » Parallel map and each
14 Aug 2007 » Re-definitions, tuples, and constructors
12 Aug 2007 » Fixing a very old bug
12 Aug 2007 » Mixins
11 Aug 2007 » Going to Austin
10 Aug 2007 » Smalltalk is dying
10 Aug 2007 » New suite of benchmarks
07 Aug 2007 » Named local variables and lexical closures in Factor
06 Aug 2007 » "er" words
06 Aug 2007 » Efficient partial function application (aka compiled curry)
25 Jul 2007 » Smoother stand-alone app deployment
25 Jul 2007 » Specialized float arrays
22 Jul 2007 » execve() returning ENOTSUP on Mac OS X
21 Jul 2007 » Support for IPv6 and Unix domain sockets
19 Jul 2007 » Generating stand-alone Mac OS X applications from Factor
23 Jun 2007 » Converting modules to the new module system
21 Jun 2007 » New vocabulary browser
21 Jun 2007 » Leo: a literate text editor with syntax highlighting derived from jEdit
17 Jun 2007 » Inverting a permutation in 4 words
15 Jun 2007 » Enchilada in Factor
14 Jun 2007 » Stand-alone images and the Cocoa UI backend
13 Jun 2007 » SSL streams support
13 Jun 2007 » Selecting text in pane gadgets
09 Jun 2007 » Job trends
09 Jun 2007 » Generating minimal images; deploying stand-alone applications
08 Jun 2007 » Amusing discussion in #forth
04 Jun 2007 » New Factor blogger
31 May 2007 » Time to move to a new version control system
28 May 2007 » Work begins on new module system
26 May 2007 » Problem in Factor 0.89 binary packages for Mac OS X
22 May 2007 » Cat 0.14.0 released
14 May 2007 » Introducing the profiler
12 May 2007 » Disabling the generational collector
12 May 2007 » Garbage collector improvements
09 May 2007 » Mac OS X data corruption bug
06 May 2007 » Factor 0.89 now available
04 May 2007 » Interval inference
04 May 2007 » UDP support
01 May 2007 » Cat 0.12.0 released
25 Apr 2007 » Is reflective heap access even useful?
24 Apr 2007 » Cat updates
24 Apr 2007 » Formal semantics of concatenative languages
23 Apr 2007 » Another gcc bug
22 Apr 2007 » Immutable sequences
19 Apr 2007 » Interval arithmetic
16 Apr 2007 » Oracle binding
16 Apr 2007 » Embedding Factor into C applications
14 Apr 2007 » Association protocol
10 Apr 2007 » New developer tools
03 Apr 2007 » Cat updates
03 Apr 2007 » Evolving object shapes
30 Mar 2007 » Adding named parameters to Factor
30 Mar 2007 » Evaluating a quadratic polynomial
24 Mar 2007 » Documenting user interfaces the smart way
21 Mar 2007 » New inspector
21 Mar 2007 » Number of unit tests
15 Mar 2007 » Improved unit testing framework
13 Mar 2007 » Topological sort
13 Mar 2007 » Multimedia library bindings
13 Mar 2007 » Prettier prettyprinting
28 Feb 2007 » Factor 0.88 released
27 Feb 2007 » Random maze generator
27 Feb 2007 » Factor meets the Stanford Bunny
27 Feb 2007 » Linux/PPC support and assorted FFI improvements
26 Feb 2007 » Sudoku solver in Factor
22 Feb 2007 » Gram-Schmidt in Factor
19 Feb 2007 » Factor ported to OpenBSD/x86
12 Feb 2007 » MySQL bindings
11 Feb 2007 » Exciting bug
10 Feb 2007 » Automatically detecting SSE2, and other stuff
03 Feb 2007 » Double Trouble
01 Feb 2007 » ARM port day 3
31 Jan 2007 » Formal semantics for the Cat programming language
31 Jan 2007 » ICFP '06 universal machine ported to Factor
31 Jan 2007 » ARM port day 2
29 Jan 2007 » ARM port day 1
25 Jan 2007 » Memoization in Factor
21 Jan 2007 » Removing duplicates, boolean arrays, ARM
19 Jan 2007 » Converting an Excel file to CSV - Factor makes XML fun!
19 Jan 2007 » Faster performance on the reverse-complement benchmark
12 Jan 2007 » A compiler optimization
10 Jan 2007 » Command-line editing in the TTY listener
09 Jan 2007 » Tool to tally contributor patch counts
08 Jan 2007 » Warm fuzzies
08 Jan 2007 » Two promising Haskell projects
03 Jan 2007 » Factor 0.87 released
01 Jan 2007 » Showing the stack effect for words under the caret
27 Dec 2006 » Announcing apps/help-lint
27 Dec 2006 » factorcode.org now running latest darcs Factor; UI documentation
27 Dec 2006 » The parse time -vs- run time duality
25 Dec 2006 » Another web service example in Factor
23 Dec 2006 » Scheme 48 1.4 released
22 Dec 2006 » Funny quote
19 Dec 2006 » Google removes SOAP search API
19 Dec 2006 » JazzScheme: Scheme environment and IDE for Windows
19 Dec 2006 » Weblog software in Factor
18 Dec 2006 » Solved a conjecture
18 Dec 2006 » No math
18 Dec 2006 » UI documentation
18 Dec 2006 » Cleaned up embedded.factor
13 Dec 2006 » 'doctest' in Factor
13 Dec 2006 » Factor module system considered harmful?
11 Dec 2006 » Compiling Factor to JavaScript
11 Dec 2006 » Blogger sucks
10 Dec 2006 » Live music performance with Squeak
07 Dec 2006 » Generating a minimal image
07 Dec 2006 » Division by zero hoax
06 Dec 2006 » Don't be a victim
05 Dec 2006 » Recent UI improvements
05 Dec 2006 » Factor 0.87 approaching
30 Nov 2006 » Simple XML-RPC example - Factor talking to a Common Lisp web service
30 Nov 2006 » rot13 in Factor
30 Nov 2006 » SBCL 1.0 released
26 Nov 2006 » Using Factor for shell scripting
26 Nov 2006 » Color picker example
26 Nov 2006 » Factor 2 Enterprise Edition
23 Nov 2006 » OpenFirmware is now free software
23 Nov 2006 » Back from Montréal
17 Nov 2006 » Genuine enterprise thought leadership
16 Nov 2006 » Most people who criticize Lisp don't understand it
15 Nov 2006 » Archaic Factor screenshots
15 Nov 2006 » Doug Coleman's weblog
15 Nov 2006 » Reminder: Factor talk in Montreal
14 Nov 2006 » Factor 0.86 released
14 Nov 2006 » Haar wavelet transform in Factor
12 Nov 2006 » Some developer tools in the incubator
12 Nov 2006 » Taming variables
11 Nov 2006 » strongForth 1.1 released
11 Nov 2006 » Insane Cocoa bug
10 Nov 2006 » Factor 0.86 is ready
09 Nov 2006 » You know you're too lazy to learn better tools when...
09 Nov 2006 » Sad people
09 Nov 2006 » XML parser now supports namespaces
09 Nov 2006 » Inline allocation refactoring
09 Nov 2006 » jEdit 4.3pre8 released
04 Nov 2006 » Article about the Cat programming language
04 Nov 2006 » Memory allocation redesign pushed; 0.86 almost ready
04 Nov 2006 » Annotations instead of C code for JNI
03 Nov 2006 » Programming languages
02 Nov 2006 » Memory allocation refactoring
31 Oct 2006 » Ruby falls short
31 Oct 2006 » cl-darcs
28 Oct 2006 » Writing compilers and interpreters in Factor
27 Oct 2006 » Cat programming language 0.9
23 Oct 2006 » Factor talk at MSLUG, November 22nd
21 Oct 2006 » Module documentation
21 Oct 2006 » Double-click support in UI
19 Oct 2006 » Module main entry points
19 Oct 2006 » Factor 0.85 released
19 Oct 2006 » Embedding a stack language in Haskell with static type checking
19 Oct 2006 » Factor tetris
17 Oct 2006 » You know you're a Forth (or Factor) geek when...
17 Oct 2006 » Parser combinators example
16 Oct 2006 » Working on a Factor web framework
16 Oct 2006 » Crash while running unit tests caused by unit tests
14 Oct 2006 » Common Lisp IDE built on Eclipse
14 Oct 2006 » Using the X11 UI on Mac OS X
13 Oct 2006 » Interface builder, Cocoa, and interactive development
09 Oct 2006 » Three cheers for C syntax
09 Oct 2006 » Like watching a puss-filled boil explode in slow motion
09 Oct 2006 » Enchilada programming language
07 Oct 2006 » Swapping two variable values
07 Oct 2006 » Completion and right-click popups in the UI
03 Oct 2006 » bigForth
01 Oct 2006 » Single stepping
30 Sep 2006 » Cat programming language 0.7.1
30 Sep 2006 » Annoying CS PhD students
28 Sep 2006 » Code GC works
24 Sep 2006 » Code GC
22 Sep 2006 » JNI bridge
20 Sep 2006 » Long computation
18 Sep 2006 » Cat programming language 0.6
16 Sep 2006 » Adding a new compiler optimization
16 Sep 2006 » Faster I/O performance on Unix
13 Sep 2006 » Warning: User mode Linux mmap() is broken
12 Sep 2006 » Patterns in programming languages
11 Sep 2006 » Strongtalk is now open source
10 Sep 2006 » Visualizing stack code
08 Sep 2006 » TextMate integration
06 Sep 2006 » Better development workflow
05 Sep 2006 » Serializable space invaders
05 Sep 2006 » On learning
04 Sep 2006 » Interesting weblog
03 Sep 2006 » Factor 0.84
03 Sep 2006 » Is American high school education really that bad?
01 Sep 2006 » Recent UI changes
01 Sep 2006 » Factor is now three years old
31 Aug 2006 » Distributed concurrency in Factor
30 Aug 2006 » Scheme-based real time music programming environment for OS X
30 Aug 2006 » Object serialization
28 Aug 2006 » New stack-based language
25 Aug 2006 » Generic editor hook
24 Aug 2006 » New commands in the UI listener
24 Aug 2006 » "Step back" feature in single stepper
18 Aug 2006 » Even faster bootstrap
16 Aug 2006 » Better emacs integration
16 Aug 2006 » More about stack effects
15 Aug 2006 » Formal stack effect declarations
12 Aug 2006 » Smarter 'apropos' tool
11 Aug 2006 » Automatically recompiling words
09 Aug 2006 » C function pointer syntax
09 Aug 2006 » Reworking the compiler, again
07 Aug 2006 » Gadget models
07 Aug 2006 » Apple announcements
07 Aug 2006 » JSON parser
06 Aug 2006 » Lambda calculus interpreter in Factor
04 Aug 2006 » New web framework
03 Aug 2006 » VIM integration
02 Aug 2006 » Definition protocol
02 Aug 2006 » Can your programming language do this?
01 Aug 2006 » #concatenative IRC channel
01 Aug 2006 » Factor can :help you
01 Aug 2006 » Self 4.3
31 Jul 2006 » GUI single stepper
28 Jul 2006 » Factorcode.org HTTPD crashes after 1 month of uptime
28 Jul 2006 » Factor 0.83 now available
27 Jul 2006 » Poor I/O performance
25 Jul 2006 » InterLisp
25 Jul 2006 » Java-style university degrees
25 Jul 2006 » Shortest path between two words and other goodness
24 Jul 2006 » Clipboard access: Cocoa compared to X11
24 Jul 2006 » Faster bootstrap
22 Jul 2006 » Lazy lists in Factor
19 Jul 2006 » A status update
14 Jul 2006 » Gaussian elimination in Factor
14 Jul 2006 » JRoller error
11 Jul 2006 » Factor performance shootout
11 Jul 2006 » Nasty bug in AMD64 compiler backend fixed
09 Jul 2006 » Onyx programming language
09 Jul 2006 » Differential graded Hopf algebras in Factor
09 Jul 2006 » New release of IsForth
07 Jul 2006 » Big cleanup of Factor's C sources
06 Jul 2006 » Factor running on Intel Macs
05 Jul 2006 » Bug in Intel Core Duo CPU?
05 Jul 2006 » Embedded scripting in HTML pages
03 Jul 2006 » Working on Mac Intel support
26 Jun 2006 » Factor web site now running latest HTTP server code
18 Jun 2006 » Module system
18 Jun 2006 » Cat programming language
17 Jun 2006 » Factory window manager
17 Jun 2006 » Levenshtein edit distance algorithm in Factor
15 Jun 2006 » Full text search in help now works
14 Jun 2006 » GC bug
11 Jun 2006 » Full text search in help
04 Jun 2006 » Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken
04 Jun 2006 » Why is Groovy is big?
03 Jun 2006 » Starting copy and paste support
29 May 2006 » Redesigned Cocoa binding reduces image size by 2Mb
29 May 2006 » SqueakNOS project
27 May 2006 » Window configuration (and content) now saved in the image
24 May 2006 » Linspire Linux distribution standardizes on Haskell
24 May 2006 » Cocoa services support
24 May 2006 » Better handling of undefined words; restarts
20 May 2006 » Some fun with the UI
18 May 2006 » Quotations now a first-class type; conses removed
16 May 2006 » Factor 0.82 now available
11 May 2006 » Factor 0.82 almost ready
09 May 2006 » Cool Common Lisp project
09 May 2006 » Floating point intrinsics working on PowerPC
04 May 2006 » Java 6 last release to support PowerPC macs?
03 May 2006 » Is SSE2 mainstream?
01 May 2006 » Assembler templates
28 Apr 2006 » Defining new compiler intrinsics
28 Apr 2006 » A look at the new compiler design
14 Apr 2006 » Humorous web log
13 Apr 2006 » Exams and compiler
30 Mar 2006 » Factor 0.81 now available
27 Mar 2006 » New browser interface in the UI
25 Mar 2006 » Windows UI backend complete
22 Mar 2006 » X11 and Cocoa backends are (mostly) done
21 Mar 2006 » Objective C FFI now supports super message sends
20 Mar 2006 » Started X11 UI backend
18 Mar 2006 » Partial continuations in Factor
18 Mar 2006 » Cocoa backend for Factor UI in progress
13 Mar 2006 » Computing connectedness of simplicial complexes
11 Mar 2006 » Compiler status update, Cocoa subclassing
02 Mar 2006 » Compiler reworking in progress
24 Feb 2006 » Callbacks working on AMD64, Objective C exceptions
19 Feb 2006 » Callbacks working on PowerPC and x86
14 Feb 2006 » Working on callbacks; another server problem fixed
09 Feb 2006 » QuickTime and PDFKit demos
07 Feb 2006 » Improved Cocoa bridge; fixed some I/O bugs
31 Jan 2006 » Now using DARCS for the Factor source repository
30 Jan 2006 » Factor 0.80 is out
30 Jan 2006 » Factor UI now runs on AMD64
28 Jan 2006 » Workaround for GCC 4.0 issue on x86
28 Jan 2006 » Factor mailing list created
26 Jan 2006 » Factor 0.80 web server now live; AMD64 FFI progress
24 Jan 2006 » Test instance of Factor HTTPD 0.80
22 Jan 2006 » Problem with GCC 4.0 and -fschedule-insns
22 Jan 2006 » Random compiler tester finds first bug
20 Jan 2006 » Factor 0.80 almost ready
12 Jan 2006 » 3D graphics in Factor
11 Jan 2006 » Objective-C library interface with Apple text-to-speech example
30 Dec 2005 » Another help system teaser
28 Dec 2005 » Help system preview
25 Dec 2005 » "Programming language paradigms" are meaningless
25 Dec 2005 » Factor runs on AMD64
22 Dec 2005 » Approaching functional programming from a procedural mindset
19 Dec 2005 » Markup language for online help system
17 Dec 2005 » More work on CLIM-like presentation output streams
15 Dec 2005 » Finished my degree; Factor status update
07 Dec 2005 » AMD64 compiler backend in progress
01 Dec 2005 » New web site address: factorcode.org
01 Dec 2005 » X11 window manager written in Factor
28 Nov 2005 » New hashtable implementation brings 400kb reduction in image size
15 Nov 2005 » Working on a 3D game in Factor
06 Nov 2005 » Factor 0.79 released
30 Oct 2005 » Incompatible changes in Factor 0.79
28 Oct 2005 » Factor 0.79 almost ready
23 Oct 2005 » Rendering text with FreeType and OpenGL
13 Oct 2005 » A random status update
04 Oct 2005 » Word name completion in listener, and quaternions
02 Oct 2005 » Persisting tuples in a relational database
27 Sep 2005 » Surprising reduction in image size, and more outliner goodness
25 Sep 2005 » CLIM-like features in Factor UI
24 Sep 2005 » Welcome to my new weblog