Well, the original article discusses how Forth's local variables don't really help; I assume the same applies to Factor's local-variable implementation. Factor

Well, the original article discusses how Forth's local variables don't really help; I assume the same applies to Factor's local-variable implementation. Factor's higher-level, functional stack-shuffling words (cleaves and splats and what not) are definitely easier to understand than the low-level Forth shuffling words, but I find myself thinking very hard about how values need to be ordered on the stack.