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Re:Burn the Programmer by mordechai9000 on Friday November 10, 2017 @11:55AM (#15671144)
As I recall (it's been years) it was based on Forth because a stack based postfix language is easy to implement. It can be parsed and executed in a single sequential pass.
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Re:Burn the Programmer by stryan on Friday November 10, 2017 @12:20PM (#15671344)
Right it was Forth! I remember reading that got me interested in stack-based programming languages. Maybe it was in a later book he wrote something based off APL.
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