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Constraints:
- Existence of an all-important data stack. All operations
(conditionals, arithmetic, etc.) are done over data on the stack
- Existence of a heap for storing data that's needed for later
operations. The heap data can be associated with names
(i.e. variables). As said above, all operations are done over
data on the stack, so any heap data that needs to be operated upon
needs to be moved first to the stack and eventually back to the heap
- Abstraction in the form of user-defined "procedures" (i.e. names
bound to a set of instructions), which may be called something else
entirely
Possible names:
- Go-Forth (as in the Forth programming language)
- Stack machine