Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"

On 26/04/2025 9:07 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

In article <b73cd7a7ab393f51bfaa18a9171086732bcc0bdf@i2pn2.org>,
dxf  <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:

On 26/04/2025 2:34 am, Hans Bezemer wrote:

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Yeah, I have helped to make a proposal for PLACE and +PLACE - which never even made it to the voting stage.

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It's a nice symmetry.  OTOH the remaining vendors use APPEND and why should they change?
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$+! was even earlier. It predates the IBM PC XT.
(Osborne, CP/M)

Even PLACE was new back then!

String stacks often had $+ or equiv.  Somehow I never took to them.
Not enough applications that warranted the effort?