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by zsyllepsis 721 days ago
I don’t think this is accurate. While most popular concatenative languages are stack-based, that is not a requirement for the paradigm. The Wikipedia article calls out a few alternatives, such as Om.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_la...

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APL-family languages are somewhat concatenative but not stack-based. They use grouping rules to form chains of composed functions.