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#REDIRECT [[Stack-oriented programming]]

In [[computer science]], a '''stack-based language''' is a [[computer language]] that uses the [[stack (computing)|stack]] to store intermediate results during computation. [[Forth]] and [[Java programming language|Java]] [[byte-code]] are examples of stack-based languages.

A stack-based language tends to be used as intermediate representation of a program during its compilation.

== Example ==

A piece of code to compute the sum of 10 * (20 + 30) would be like:

<pre>

push 10 // push 10 onto the stack

push 20 // push 20

push 30 // push 30

add // pop two values from the stack, and push its sum

mul // pop two values from the stack, and push its sum

</pre>

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