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by gpderetta 1254 days ago
Because that's the very definition of a concatenative language.
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I don't think that there's anything inherent about concatenative languages that forces them to be postfix. The Wikipedia definition (not authoritative, surely, but one we can all access) is:

> A concatenative programming language is a point-free computer programming language in which all expressions denote functions, and the juxtaposition of expressions denotes function composition.

As long as all functions are fixed arity—admittedly a serious limitation—there doesn't seem obviously to be any reason you couldn't write the function first (though of course it's fair to ask why you would want to).

Om is a prefix concatenative language

https://www.om-language.org/index.html

I associate concatenative languages with stack languages, which means that the postfix syntax is obvious. But as the sibling comment mentioned, that doesn't necessarily need to be the case.