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evincarofautumn on March 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: What is “the stack”?

> I keep thinking about designing a functional language with stack allocation, though...

You might be interested in concatenative programming, effectively a modern functional take on Forth-like languages. Factor is a mature, dynamically typed concatenative language, with an excellent interactive environment reminiscent of Smalltalk. I have also been working on a statically typed concatenative language for a while now.

arethuza on March 3, 2016 [–]

I found the Joy language to be pretty interesting - it's described as "Forth's functional cousin":

http://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror/forth-joy.html

mikekchar on March 4, 2016 | [–]

Thank you very much! (and to the parent as well!). FORTH programming was my first paying gig. I will look at this with much joy :-)

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