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From: minforth@gmx.net (minforth)
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Subject: Re: Avoid treating the stack as an array [Re: "Back & Forth" is back!]
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:48:10 +0000
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Twisting even simple problem solutions to fit the stack machine model
just to make code execution easier in the stack machime falls into
Knuth's famous "Premature Optimization is the Root of all Evil".

There are many parallels with some Forth coding styles:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/premature-optimization/