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Concatenative Languages

1 2021-05-28 17:38

https://www.concatenative.org/wiki/view/Concatenative%20language

Why didn't languages like Forth and PostScript catch on?

2 2021-05-28 23:27 *

Concatenative languages such as Forth force you to anally deform your brain into the shape of a stack. Besides that, they don't offer any advantages. Having formal parameters in functions is a big win, and concatenative languages lose because of that.

3 2021-05-29 10:19

>>2
Never understood why you couldn't have formal parameters in a stack-based language.

4 2021-05-29 12:39

>>3
https://suhr.github.io/wcpl/intro.html

5 2021-05-30 20:35

foul language

6 2021-05-30 21:44

>>4
Cool, but that doesn't explain why you *cannot* have formal parameters.

7 2021-05-31 02:51

You totally can. Webassembly does that. It combins the worst of lisp, FORTH and the JVM.

8 2021-06-01 04:22 *

>>6
Nobody says you can't.

9 2021-07-03 21:22

I say you can't.

10 2021-07-03 22:22 *

>>9 nobody youre not a programmer

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