Scripts and Programming

Google Tech Talks October 27, 2008 ABSTRACT Factor is a general-purpose programming language which has been in development for a little over five years and is influenced by Forth, Lisp, and Smalltalk. Factor takes the best ideas from Forth — simplicity, succinct code, emphasis on interactive testing, meta-programming — and brings modern high-level language features such as garbage collection, object orientation, and functional programming familiar to users of languages such as Python and …

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Factor: an extensible interactive language

Today we are going to create a basic Custom Tags parsing script that will parse special symbols (tags) in text for formatting purpose. Just like writing BOLD , a web browser parses it as “BOLD” in bold letters, same way our script will parse tags created by us.

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Basic "Custom Tags" Parsing Script