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Indeed, you can, but then you have a very exact requirement on exactly how the interpreter is implemented which can never be optimized, and any disagreement between implementations can cause a world ending consensus failure.

By not having looping or recursion script naturally gets an operation limit by virtue of having a size limit, and this is _relatively_ easy to get right between implementations. (Though, so far several of the alt implementations have gotten it wrong).



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