Episode 89 - Forth
Advent of Computing
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Using a Stack Pointer in Computer Science
Stacks are so supremely useful to us computer nerves that most processors natively support this one data structure. In moore's new language, which we can basically call forth at this point, a programe, interacts more directly with the stack. This is one of those neat ways that hardware and software have influenced each other and worked together. So the stack is good, it's useful, and it's eminently available. Here's wer more factors in. While at slack, he decided to use a stack for passing arguments to functions. Now some languages do this kind on the down low. But in c youse special syntax that obscures the lower level process in going on.
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