> I saw Zed Shaw do a presentation using factor and decided to spend a weekend playing with it. I saw the same presentation back then and also spent a weekend

> I saw Zed Shaw do a presentation using factor and decided to spend a weekend playing with it. I saw the same presentation back then and also spent a weekend with factor. It was a really valuable experience. The language was so different from anything I had previously used that I had to learn a new way of thinking. That was a great thing to go through. Slava Pestov (the creator of factor) did a presentation on the language at Google back in the 2000s. A highlight from the talk was him explaining that there was a function 'boa' that you could call to construct an object 'by order of arguments'. He called it "a boa constructor." :)