Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27

Joe scripsit:

> But when working with a stack, the computer will naturally take the last
> value first, will it not?
Yes, but it still pushes the left-hand argument on the stack first;
on an RPN calculator you calculate 2 - 3 by saying "2 <enter> 3 -".

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"The exception proves the rule."  Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves
my theory."  Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts
the rule to the proof."  But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an
exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."