Re: [stack] impure concatenativity: let without translation

>  Naive question: Is there any reason why concatenative languages are
>  (uniformly) postfix? Would prefix work just as well, pushing elements onto
>  the stack from right to left?
>
>
>  --Joe

Naive answer: prefix is readable for simple things, but when things
like "swap" are included, it gets more awkward to do prefix. It ends
up that you're reading things backwards. Neither prefix nor postfix
allows a completely left-to-right reading, but in my experience,
postfix has things *mostly* left-to-right once you're comfortable with
the language. Anyway, if the program is broken up into small units, it
doesn't matter what order things are in! And concatenativity, whether
in prefix or postfix, makes this much easier.

Dan