Re: Parsing timestamps?

Stack jugglery means wasting CPU cycles for
moving the bytes around - it's contrproductive.
Variables have been invented to be used. They're
useful, if you didn't notice, or if they didn't
tell you that in your college, or wherever.

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'+' does something useful. It produces a sum.
'SWAP' merely changes the order of two subsequent
bytes.

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Interesting. So you claim that instructions like:
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LD HL, (23672)
PUSH HL
POP HL
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Have no use, since they are just "moving bytes around"? Which means [..]

Which DOESN'T 'mean', because I DIDN'T write anywhere
that the instructions used for moving bytes are useless;
what I wrote was that YOUR way of 'overloading' Forth
words with byte moving stuff (in the strange belief that
it is 'canonical way') doesn't make much sense.
Since you aren't able to read WITH UNDERSTANDING - or
maybe you're twisting my words on purpose, which means
you're trolling - we better end such 'discussion', because
it's as pointless as creating the words that half of their
execution time just move the bytes "Back and Forth".
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