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Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 24, 1999, 1:58
> Enlighten me... What is an "RPN" language? I thought > I had heard of most of these..
RPN is the "language" of HP calculators. They decided to Reverse the Polish parentheses-free Notation so one merely keys-in "5 7 *" to get 35. There are some parallels with SOV human languages, and it entices one to think that it might be easily machine-parse-able. That would be my executive summary ... plus: http://www.hpmuseum.org/rpn.htm