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From: Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: FP stack
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 11:06:21 +0300
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On 05/10/17 11:02, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> writes:
>> Wouldn't it have made some sense to make all items take one cell on the
>> stack so that you could just use SWAP without worrying?
> 
> Not on the memory starved computers of the classic Forth era.

OK... that was a looong time ago.  Even today's micro-controllers often
have sufficient memory to handle a more sophisticated and less prone to
programmer failure approach.