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# Factor
The Factor programming language combines [powerful language
Factor is a [concatenative](http://www.concatenative.org), stack-based
programming language with [high-level
features](http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/Features/The%20language)
with a [full-featured
library](http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-vocab-index.html). The
implementation is [fully
including dynamic types, extensible syntax, macros, and garbage collection.
On a practical side, Factor has a [full-featured
library](http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-vocab-index.html),
supports many different platforms, and has been extensively documented.
The implementation is [fully
compiled](http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/Optimizing%20compiler)
for performance, while still supporting [interactive
development](http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/Interactive%20development).