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Article #933Re: function calls (long)
From: John R. Dudeck
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 1990 06:20
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 1990 06:20
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In article <5200053@m.cs.uiuc.edu> robison@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >I remember a strong similarity between the early Burroughs stack >machines and the early versions of FORTH. Can anyone comment on whether >FORTH was inspired by the Burroughs stack machines? I took a course in Forth from polyForth back in 1981. We were given a dose of the history of Forth and even graced by a visit from Charlie Moore, its creator. The first incarnation of Forth was done on a PDP11 with 4k of core memory. I belive the main considerations were 1. compactness of code (hence threaded implementation) and 2. simplicity of compilation (hence reverse polish notation and stacks). -- John Dudeck "You want to read the code closely..." jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549 Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!petunia!polyslo!jdudeck From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: function calls (long) Message-ID: <26086eb6.4cc6@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Date: 22 Mar 90 06:20:38 GMT References: <584@bsovax.UUCP> <5200053@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo Lines: 12