Properties
The properties of concatenative languages are the result of their compositional syntax and semantics:
- The reduction of any expression is the simplification of one function to another function; it is never necessary to deal with the application of functions to objects.
- Any subexpression can be replaced with a name that represents the same subexpression. This is referred to in the concatenative community as factoring and is used extensively to simplify programs into smaller parts.
- The syntax and semantics of concatenative languages form the algebraic structure of a monoid.
- Concatenative languages can be made well-suited to an implementation inspired by linear logic where no garbage is ever generated.
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