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		elcritch on Feb 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C Forth. It’s easy for a small cute script. But quickly becomes a PITA.

gatane on Feb 20, 2023 [–]

Stack machines look cool until you realize you could save all the stack mumbling by using registers. At this point, you could try to make a full VM instead.

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