Re: [stack] Advantages of cat, joy ..?

Stevan Apter wrote:
> i think chris is asking good questions. [...]
> joy and kin deliver some impressive code simplification in the small, 
> but i keep wondering, "does it scale?"  so far, to my mind, the jury
> is still out.

I think the only way to test this is to actually perform the scaling,
and observe where it falls short. Otherwise you run the risk of assuming
that the lessons-learned from other styles of programming apply strictly
to this one.

Factor is one attempt to do this in a public environment. Its library is
large, well tested, and constantly being updated to match the currently
useful idioms. Slava doesn't allow a library module to remain long in an
"obsolete" style; such modules get deprecated until they're rewritten.

-Wm