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Re: Trickier sorting

Date 2013-06-17 13:14 -1000
From Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com>
Organization FORTH, Inc
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Trickier sorting
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On 6/17/2013 1:02 PM, Rod Pemberton wrote:
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> So, B was stack based, used threaded code, had a single data type
> consisting of a 'cell'.  Sound familiar?  The big noticeable
> difference is that B looks much like C in terms of syntax.  Forth
> doesn't.

Well, Forth is based on two stacks, does not necessarily use threaded 
code, and has quite a few data types, although the compiler doesn't 
enforce data type rules. I agree that Forth doesn't look at all like 
either B or C. So, not really much in common at all.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

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