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If Factor programs are just compositions of existing words, how is Factor as powerful as other programming languages?

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If Factor programs are just compositions of existing words, how is Factor as powerful as other programming languages?

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Factor is a Turing-complete programming language whose programs are capable of doing whatever any other programming language can do. In fact, it isn't all that complicated to translate between a stack-based language and an applicative one, as long as it's known how many arguments the words in the stack-based language take.