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From: Ed Falis <falis@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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Robert A Duff wrote:

> Why do we call these closures "downward" and "upward" instead of the
> other way around?

Because certain microprocessor architectures manage their stacks from
high to low addresses as things are pushed onto them?  Stupid, but
understandable how it may have happened.