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No, Bitcoin Script is not Forth. Bitcoin Script is designed to guarantee termination, so no Turing-complete programming language was permitted. Like BPF, Bitc

by kragen 1y ago

No, Bitcoin Script is not Forth. Bitcoin Script is designed to guarantee termination, so no Turing-complete programming language was permitted. Like BPF, Bitcoin Script doesn't have subroutine definitions or backward jumps, so each opcode executes at most once. This is like saying JSON is C++.

adastra22 1y ago
It's more like saying JSON is Javascript, which it is to a degree.
- kragen 1y ago
  I considered that analogy and consciously rejected it.