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0	0	Wanda
1	1	=====
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3		Wanda is a Forth-like language with string-rewriting semantics,
4		meaning it is arguably not fair to call it "concatenative",
5		or even "stack-based". (For a more detailed explanation of what
6		these things mean, see the Tutorial section.)
	3	Wanda is a Forth-like language. Despite being Forth-like, it
	4	is arguably not fair to call it "concatenative", or even
	5	"stack-based", because it is based on a string-rewriting semantics.
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	7	The remainder of this document will describe the language and
	8	will attempt to elucidate the above statement.
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8	10	Basics
9	11	------

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39	41	2 +
40	42	===> 2 +
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	44	So, we see that, despite looking like and evaluating
	45	like a Forth program, there is no stack separate from
	46	the program. "2" is not an instruction that pushes
	47	the value 2 onto the stack, it's just a "2".
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	49	It's all just a string which gets rewritten.
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42	51	### Some other builtins
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