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May 07, 2007

Factor 0.89 Released

Posted: 2007-05-07 23:12:00
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Factor 0.89 has been released. Factor is portable, dynamically typed stack-based language, drawing from Forth, Common Lisp, Joy and Slate.

This release includes: preliminary support for Windows CE, UDP support on UNIX, a generic protocol for associative collections, preliminary support for embedding Factor in C applications, the addition of UTF8/UTF16 encoding and decoding words, support for OpenBSD/AMD64, an overhaul of the parser, improvements to the ARM backend, plus other changes and fixes.