[digitailor]

That's what's cool about the Forth idea, and why it can be so effective. It's not that it's unintuitive, it just doesn't take Algol-style semantics as a given as we do today. (It was being used before C was even developed.) If we're interested, it's our job to see if we can fit our thought process into the Forth idea, not vice versa.

And it's a very coherent idea. It's meant to respect processor architecture while maintaining a good level of comprehensibility to the human. And it keeps a MUCH closer correspondence between "word" (essentially a routine) and actual instruction. That got WAY lost with C, enter the beast-compiler.

I think of it as a concept layer above assembly, that has features far beyond just mnemonic value. It's like Lisp to me- a language whose "syntax" is dictated by the functional necessity of a computing methodology, not the decisions of language designers. For me at least, the approach leads to much higher productivity for a variety of reasons.

There's also a very high probability that Forth is the first thing to be run when you turn on the computer or cellphone you're reading this from.

Now as to Factor... see my post above and help me out!