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Geez, he did that too? I'm on a concatenative language chat server (you know, Forth, Joy, Factor, Kitten and the like), and someone recently realized one of his earliest papers from 1962 is one of the first to highlight the generality of stack-based languages. Like it's already halfway there towards a proper Forth.

[0] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD00xx/E...



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