FORTH, the heat is on (sorry Don Henley)

[Tim Smith]

In article <703 at pucc-j> rsk at pucc-j.UUCP (Wombat) writes:
>
>"efficient" is a nice buzzword, but efficiency is not the issue here.
>The lack of a clean, built-in, and natural way to do recursion in Forth is.
>

I use recursion in Forth.  What difference does it make if it is built-in?
It is simple to add, and does _exactly_ the same thing that built-in
recursion would do.  It is clean and natural.  Why build something into
a language that not everybody wants, and that those who do can easily add?

Forth: the Unix V6 of languages.
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