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Re: Computer Language Question

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 26, 2002, 21:27
Keith scripsit:

> Well FORTH and its derivatives (Postscript and the Klingon computer > language) work just like this. It's called "Reverse Polish Notation" -- > anyone know why? Some early pocket calculators worked like this too.
Why does everyone think that HP scientific calculators don't exist any more? Just last year I bought my daughter one, and it's a hell of an advance over the one I had in high school -- but still RPN. -- XQuery Blueberry DOM John Cowan Entity parser dot-com jcowan@reutershealth.com Abstract schemata http://www.reutershealth.com XPointer errata http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Infoset Unicode BOM --Richard Tobin