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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Klparrot (talk | contribs) at 16:43, 3 May 2007 (explained my dispute about the "operations of the stack" section). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

This article should be split up in 2 articles. It confuses 2 meanings of stack-based languages: 1. Languages that define all operations as stack based (this article). 2. Languages that need stack-based processors, hence are inherently stack-based languages.

Indeed a lot of languages are stack-based: C, C++, Pascal, Modula, Smalltalk, Visual Basic. In fact all /most(?) function-based languages need a stack-based processor.

BASIC (the version with line number) is a language that doesn't necessarily need a stack-based processor (that is, when no subcalling is implemented (GOSUB)).

Confusion in "Operations of the stack" section

  • I've added a disputed-section tag to the Operations of the stack section. I think it confuses the input and the stack. The input is a stream which can only be popped from. If you pop an operand from the input, you push it on to the stack. If you pop an operator from the input, you pop operands from the stack (however many the operator takes), perform the operation, then push the result on to the stack. I'll take a crack at rewriting the section. Klparrot 16:43, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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