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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Went open source with my GA144 simulator written in Factor
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:39:44 -0700
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"Leon (leon@koningssoftware.com)" <lkonings56@gmail.com> writes:
> I am happy to say, I went public with the GA144 Simulator, I wrote in
> Factor.

Wow, this sounds neat.  I had been toying with the idea of writing
something like that in Erlang, which supports lightweight parallelism.
Factor is of course closer to Forth.  I see there is a new version of
Factor and it looks like it is growing pretty rapidly.