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by vdupras
265 days ago
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Unlike most languages, Forth has two stacks. It sounds trivial, but it changes many things. It allows for a leaner call convention. With a single stack, every function call has to "shovel forward" its arguments over the function return address, where Forth "glides" through its arguments, making function calls significantly lighter. |
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Like Forth, Ada has two stacks. Unlike Forth, which uses two stacks to simplify the language, Ada uses two stacks to complexify the language. This generalizes to other language features.