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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: RRe: What's so good about FORTH?
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Date: Tue, 17-Jun-86 12:11:11 EDT
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> FORTH appears to be the only major language that uses threaded code as the
> primary means of expressing algorithms internally. Other languages and
> applications do use threaded code but by no means even close to the extent
> that FORTH does. Threaded code is used for compactness and simplicity.

Have a look at the Spitbol compilers sometime.