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Why is Factor stack-based?

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Why is Factor stack-based?

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Concatenative and stack-based languages have not received much attention from the programming community ever since Forth began a slow decline in the 80’s. The Concatenative language page discusses some advantages of this programming paradigm. Once you learn some common idioms, many problems can be more cleanly expressed in a concatenative language compared to an applicative language.