Questions tagged [stack-oriented]
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Why does Forth's flexibility make a grammar inappropriate for it?
I've recently undertaken the task of writing a stack-based programming language. Before I started designing my language however, I thought it'd be a good idea to read and experiment with existing ...
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Coding style for chained function calls
A common thing you need to do is to take a value, do something with it by passing it to a function, and then do some more with the return value, in a chain. Whenever I run into this type of scenario, ...
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Status of stack based languages
I have recently become curious about Factor, which, as far as I understand, is the most practical stack-based language around. Forth seems not to be used much these days - I think it is because it was ...
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What problems are stack oriented languages well-suited and ill-suited for?
Stack-oriented programming is a pretty non-widely used paradigm (well, PostScript gets used under the hood a bit here and there). This in mind, what problems are stack-oriented languages good at? What ...
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