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Article #326Re: Re: Elegance (was Re: Language Tenets)
From: Marc `Bo Who?' Sabatella
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1989 19:04
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1989 19:04
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>In the POP-2 language and its derivatives, multi-result functions are handled >in a very straight forward manner: >... >If you think of "f(x,y)" as "push x, push y, call f", and "-> x" as "pop x", >then the underlying [stack] mechanism and its usages should be self evident. It is even more straightforward in Forth, where values are pushed by simply computing them, and implicitly popped by calling a word that requires an argument. Since parameters are not named, however, you get a lot of the "dup swap drip drop" that contributes to Forth's being considered a Write Only language. It seems POP-2 may have found one way around this.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcdc!marc From: marc@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Marc `Bo Who?' Sabatella) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Re: Elegance (was Re: Language Tenets) Message-ID: <5160020@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Date: 24 Jul 89 19:04:22 GMT References: <165@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co. Lines: 11