The build-up-from-little-pieces style of Forth meets the terseness of the APL family in this functional, programming language. That's my impression. I don't use any of those, though. I recognize author from Lambda the Ultimate. I emailed him to see if he wants to tell us more about this.
A comparison with [Factor] would be very welcome.<p>[Factor]: <a href="https://factorcode.org/" rel="nofollow">https://factorcode.org/</a>
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It has been a source of much inspiration to me for many years.
So, as a complete noob with stuff like Forth and other concatenative stuff, can someone explain why they'd use it, and how something like Avelon would be cool?<p>I've read a bit about being able to avoid generating garbage, but I have to admit a bit of ignorance to what that actually means.
Reminds me a bit of Joy[1]<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)</a>