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Updated Apr 01, 2007 by cdiggins
Labels: Glossary
StackLanguages  
Definition of stack-based languages.

Stack Based Languages

Stack based languages (also known as stack-oriented languages) are programming languages with the characteristic that they pass arguments to, and return results from, functions using one or more shared stacks.

Some well known examples of stack-based languages include Postscript and Forth, as well as several intermediate languages such as the .NET common intermediate language (CIL) and Java byte-code (JVML).

Stack-based languages usually use a postfix notation also known as reverse polish notation.


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