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Starting Forth 2.

From "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Starting Forth 2.
Date 2013-09-21 14:47 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <l1kbit$npa$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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: QUADRATIC ( a b c x -- n )
    >R SWAP ROT R@ * + R> * + ;

Indecipherable stack-juggling.  Nobody with any sense
would pay anybody to write unmaintainable code like that.


Julia:

quadratic(a,b,c,x) = (a*x+b)x+c

quadratic(2,7,9,3)
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Starting Forth 2. "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-21 14:47 +0000
  Re: Starting Forth 2. "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-21 17:28 +0000
    Re: Starting Forth 2. mhx@iae.nl - 2013-09-21 13:32 -0700

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