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Alex McDonald  
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 More options Aug 21 2010, 5:51 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.scheme, comp.lang.postscript
From: Alex McDonald <b...@rivadpm.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:51:09 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, Aug 21 2010 5:51 pm
Subject: Re: why forth over lisp?
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On 21 Aug, 22:28, toby <t...@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:

> On Aug 21, 11:30 am, John Passaniti <john.passan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > On Aug 21, 3:17 am, Standish P <stnd...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > All virtual machines, lisp, java etc use stack, so forth has no
> > > monopoly over that.

> > False.  The virtual machines in Lua, Python, Perl 6, and others are
> > not stack-based.

> Actually Lua's VM is heavily stack oriented, if I recall correctly
> from experiences embedding it in C/C++.

The LUA version 5 VM has 250 "registers" which are indices into the
current stack frame. None of the 38 opcodes has any stack-like
operations; http://luaforge.net/docman/view.php/83/98/ANoFrillsIntroToLua51VMInst...

 
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