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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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Is there a need for Garbage Collection in a Stack Based Language?
This may be a stupid question but I cannot figure out the need for Garbage Collection in a Stack based language. In a language like Forth or RPL (on HP Calculators) is there a need for Garbage ...
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What problems are stack oriented languages well-suited and ill-suited for?
Stack oriented programming is a pretty unwidely 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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Stack and Heap memory in Java
As I understand , in Java, Stack memory holds primitives and method invocations and heap memory is used to store objects .
Suppose I have a class
class A {
int a ;
String b;
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I'm interested in checking out a stack-oriented programming language. Which one would you recommend?
I'm interested in learning a stack-oriented programming language (such as Forth), which one would you recommend? The qualities I want are:
You should be able to develop non-trivial software in it, ...
