History of Stack-based

	Revision 6 . . August 3, 2001 3:29 am by WillWare [Oops, the JVM *is* stack-based.]
	Revision 5 . . (edit) July 27, 2001 5:26 pm by Sandos
	Revision 4 . . July 27, 2001 5:10 pm by Sandos
	Revision 3 . . July 27, 2001 5:09 pm by Sandos
	Revision 2 . . (edit) July 27, 2001 5:09 pm by Sandos
	Revision 1 . . July 27, 2001 5:03 pm by Sandos [*inital import]

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Also many Virtual Machines are stack-based, but others are not, like the Java VM ((not sure what this link should Link to, right now I set it to 'Jvm').

The Forth language uses two stacks, one for argument passing and one for subroutine return addresses. The use of a return stack is extremely commonplace, but the somewhat unusual use of an argument stack for a human-readable programming language is the reason Forth is referred to as a stack-based language. Many Virtual Machines are stack-based, such as the Java virtual machine and the [Python virtual machine]?.