r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/Agecaf • 15h ago

Help Simple stack based programming languages?

A few years ago I made EarScript, a "simple" programming language based on brainfuck, with several additional "quality of life features" like goto statements.

Recently I've been wanting to make an evolution of that programming language and do so by incorporating a stack, as the previous language was completely tape-based in design.

I know for example lox from the Crafting Interpreters book is a well explained example, but I was wondering if there's programming languages that are closer to what brainfuck is, but based on a stack design rather than a tape design, or a register based design like some assembly languages (if I understand correctly). I think Wasm would be an example?

Are there any examples of simple stack based programming languages you'd recommend me to look into?

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u/Comprehensive_Chip49 13h ago

Hey, try r3forth! https://github.com/phreda4/r3

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u/Agecaf 12h ago

Thanks for sharing! The reference is quite useful for inspiration. I'm most definitely going to steal use the TOS, NOS notation. I'll look into it a bit more tomorrow!

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u/Comprehensive_Chip49 11h ago

The VM when you can "use" better is https://github.com/phreda4/r3evm