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Bitcoin also uses stack oriented language, and the interpreter is actually very short and simple: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/

• triska 7y ago
  Yes! Stack-based abstract machines are often used because they allow compact code that is very easy to create and interpret. As another example, Pascal p-code (UCSD p-code) is also stack-based: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) also uses an operand stack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine
  • jacobush 7y ago
    That P-code was not (quite!) portable between computers, was a lost opportunity. How cool it would have been.