Factor's implementation of polymorphic inline caching
factor-language.blogspot.com
factor-language.blogspot.com
The world didn't need "the best forth-dialect" which he created, and still doesn't. It just needs another standards compliant C compiler. Nvidia or Intel should put an end to his fun-mongering and suit that boy up for a nice Lead FOO Architect position :-)
I believe mahmud was being ironic.
I would certainly find myself using factor in very small footprint systems rather than C or asm.
Seems like this is useful innovation, and there is not much innovation happening in the C language world, relatively speaking.